How can self-care succeed in everyday family life? What beliefs ruin a relationship? Psychotherapist Franca Cerutti answers these questions every week in her podcast “Psychologie to go!”. The 46-year-old can give even serious issues such as depression and addiction a sensitive lightness. This is also the case in her forthcoming book of the same name. Her husband Christian Weiss is always by her side, he is a co-author and specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. As a couple and therapeutic community, the two are often asked for relationship tips. A conversation about the four warning signs of a failing relationship.
ICONIST: Does it help your relationship that you’re both professionals?
Franca Cerutti: Although my husband and I are trained in our communication, we also have to be careful not to become too careless with each other. You don’t take others for granted and take your bad mood out on them. Or refrain from assuring each other of love. I think we’re trying. But for me it is already the third marriage.
ICONIST: Then you must have experienced the apocalyptic riders of a partnership, as the American relationship researcher John Gottman calls the four indicators of relationship dissatisfaction.