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Why Repair Fails (Even When Both Partners Are Trying)
Couples Therapy, Love in Practice Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 1/21/26 Couples Therapy, Love in Practice Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 1/21/26

Why Repair Fails (Even When Both Partners Are Trying)

Repair doesn’t fail because couples don’t try hard enough. It fails when safety is missing. Here’s what most people misunderstand—and what actually helps repair land.

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Why Fighting Feels Safer Than Repair
Love in Practice, From the Journal Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 1/11/26 Love in Practice, From the Journal Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 1/11/26

Why Fighting Feels Safer Than Repair

Why fighting can feel safer than repair—and how fear of vulnerability, not poor communication, keeps couples stuck in painful cycles.

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Why Libido Isn’t the Whole Story: What actually helps when sex starts to feel harder
Love in Practice Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 12/21/25 Love in Practice Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 12/21/25

Why Libido Isn’t the Whole Story: What actually helps when sex starts to feel harder

When sex starts to feel harder, it’s easy to blame libido. But desire and arousal work differently—and understanding that difference can change everything.

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When One Wants Sex and the Other Doesn’t
Love in Practice Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 12/14/25 Love in Practice Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 12/14/25

When One Wants Sex and the Other Doesn’t

It can feel like the quietest kind of distance — not a fight, not a rupture, just two bodies missing each other’s timing. Here’s what’s really happening underneath.

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How We Find Our Way Back
Love in Practice, Repair & Reconnection Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 11/30/25 Love in Practice, Repair & Reconnection Isabella Rose Alonzo-Gatti, LMFT 11/30/25

How We Find Our Way Back

When the fight ends, love doesn’t disappear — it just finds a quieter language.

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Love in Practice: Notes from Therapy

Notes on what it means to love bravely and repair often — short, thoughtful reflections from the therapy room.

Thank you for joining Love in Practice. You’ll receive reflections and gentle reminders on what it means to love bravely and repair often.

Warmly,
Isabella

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