At the scene of any violent crime, the examining officer will likely discover blood and traces of other bodily fluids. These are able to tell a great deal about what happened, not only regarding details of how the crime was committed, but also about the people involved.

These days, nearly everyone knows his or her basic blood type, and whether it is A, B, AB, or 0, and Rhesus negative or positive. This division of blood into types was first done by Austrian physiologist Karl Landsteiner at the end of the 19th century. In his experiments, he took samples of blood and separated the red cells from the liquid, called the serum. He did this by spinning the blood at high speed in a centrifuge. Then he took the serum and added red cells from different people. They behaved in two different ways: either the cells mixed with the serum, or they clumped together (clotted), (”agglutinated”).

A number of attempts at blood transfusion had been made in the past, but this observation explained for the first time why so many had failed. When introduced blood was not of precisely the same type as that in the body, it produced agglutination, and the patient died. Tests of blood samples to discover whether agglutination will happen is now made before a transfusion is performed.

DIVIDING BLOOD INTO GROUPS
Red blood cells contain substances called antigens. These help create antibodies which fight infection and disease. Landsteiner suggested that his experiment showed the presence of two specific antigens, which he labelled A and B. The discovery of these antigens enabled him to divide human blood into 4 basic groups:

Group A: antigen A present; antigen B absent
Group B: antigen A absent; antigen B present
Group AB: both antigens A and B present
Group 0: both antigens absent

The particular blood group of an individual depends on the genetic inheritance from both parents. Known as ABO typing, it has been used, for example, to identify the biological father in a paternity case. How common each group is varies from one national population to another. In the United States, for example, the relative proportions of ABO groups are roughly 39 percent A, 13 percent B, 43 percent 0, and 5 percent AB.

In 1927, Landsteiner discovered two other antigen types, labeling their occurrence as M, N, and MN. In 1940, working in the United States, he and A.S. Wiener discovered the Rhesus factor, named after the Rhesus monkeys they investigated. Since then, other researchers have introduced more than a dozen additional group systems. Different proteins and enzymes associated with specific blood groups have also been identified.

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR FORENSICS
The ability to identify blood type is an excellent tool for uncovering important evidence in a forensic investigation. If, for example, a victim’s ABO type is O, and bloodstains of this type are found to be on clothing of a suspect whose type is A, there is a possibility that they have come from the victim.

Making use of the many other blood type systems now available, this probability can be greatly increased. If blood of type O occurs in 43% of the population, the substance haptoglobin-2 in 36 percent of these, and the enzyme PGM-2 in 5%, then the probability of an individual having these three blood types together is 43 x 36 x 5 = 7,740 in 1,000,000. In other words, around 8 people in every 1,000 will have this specific type of blood. It’s still not enough to obtain a conviction on this evidence alone, but it can help to narrow the group of suspects.

In 1925, another valuable discovery occurred. Around 80 percent of people are ’secretors’. This means their saliva, urine, perspiration, and semen contain the same substances as their blood, and are able to be used for typing in much the same way. In 1940, two British researchers discovered that it was possible to distinguish between female and male body cells, particularly the white blood cells and those of the lining of the mouth. Blood typing is now so precise that recently one scientist showed that he could distinguish between the blood of his twin daughters, who were genetically identical, because one had experienced chicken pox and the other had not.

SPLASHES OF BLOOD
At the scene of a violent homicidal attack, blood may be present in great quantities. Not only will it be on the victim, but also on the weapon and the surroundings. Indoors, the floors, walls, and even the ceilings may be splashed. Careful observation of these bloodstains can provide valuable clues about what took place. Bloodstains and splashes are classified into six basic types.

Round drops are seen on horizontal surfaces; depending on the height from which they fell, they can spray out into a starlike shape. Splashes of blood are shaped like an exclamation mark; they show that blood has flown through the air and hit a surface at an angle. While a victim is still alive, spurts of blood come from the pumping action of the heart. A major artery can spray the blood a great distance.

Pools form around the body of a bleeding person. If there is more than one pool, he either crawled, or was moved, from one area to another before dying. Smears are likely also found in this case. Trails are left when a bloody corpse is moved. There will be drops if the body was carried, and smears if it was dragged.

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Sugar, has been known to raise blood glucose causing a significant rise. Many experts believe that too much sugar does not cause a man to go blind.

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Uniforms are a standard set of clothes worn by members of a group while participating in an activity. Familiar uniforms are school uniforms, which many academic institutions require pupils and sometimes staff to wear. Uniforms are said to be equalisers that remove differences among the people wearing them. Other sets of uniforms are for office workers. Because a good impression is important to the corporate image and reputation of a company, uniforms are worn to make the company look orderly and professional.

Sports uniforms are another familiar image. They are commonly worn for sporting events and games. And, although it is important that a sports team is shown orderly and perhaps even professional as with the previous types of uniforms, athletic uniforms are focused on providing comfort to the players. They must allow them to move freely.

Things to consider when using Sports Uniforms for Promotions
One of the things to consider when using Sports Uniforms for promotions is the type of material used. Ideally, the fabric should be lightweight and comfortable. They also need to be created of fabrics that are breathable and provide protection against skin complications. The fabrics should also be able to take any movement and lunging stretches. And it also should be durable enough not to shred apart.

You may find athletic uniforms that show corporation logos. These tell us that these companies support unity and teamwork. Uniforms may become a symbol of belonging and source of pride to members of a team.

Uniforms as Promotional Tools
Companies normally put on corporate events, team-building activities, and even sporting events. These events can provide a wonderful opportunity for employers and employees to relax and enjoy each other’s company. It’s also a wonderful opportunity to promote your business. The company may take advantage of this chance to improve team spirit through the use of Sports Uniforms. They can be given out to workers as promotional sportswear. They may be simple gifts, but can be appreciated by your employees.

Sponsoring Sports Uniforms is also becoming a great means for the advertising and promotion of company brand and logo. Have a look and you will notice that on various parts of some uniforms are logos of sponsoring companies. As with many other promotional gear, athletic uniforms have logos that depict a certain company. Since sports uniforms are expensive, it’s cost-effective to allow companies to sponsor their uniforms in exchange for the logo items printed on them. During matches, uniforms are used thus logos are widely seen.

Companies will often offer to sponsor uniforms, obviously especially to winning teams. This means they are be identified with winning teams, which is good for the image of the business establishment. It creates an idea that they are both winners in their own fields.

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In A Nutshell Shade Sail’s are a shape of material suspended between fixed points to offer shelter from the elements.

A Little More Detail Shade Sails are made from sturdy, shade cloth -which is a material (normally a combination of High Density polyethylene with a filler thread or tape), with a stainless-steel cable sewn into the edge. Shade Sail’s are suspended between posts or roof/wall hooks and offer protection from the sun. Designs are based on ‘sails’ from ships, and come in many shapes but are normally seen as triangles or variations of squares/rectangles.

Ancient History
The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans were the first to use large pieces of fabric to create shade. The Colosseum in Rome was shaded with many large canvas ‘sails’ that were pulled into place by Roman sailors.

Recent History
The modern Shade Sails were developed to a commercial level in Australia in the 1980s, when people started trialling different shade cloth fabrics and installation methods.

Although the concept of a shade sail is simple, the differences in designs, components and manufacturing processes can largely affect your end result.

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yChatter.com is a great new way for those looking for a housemate to get in touch with prospective roommates or find rental properties in Sydney. The site offers absolute privacy to both renters and owners while offering a way for them to communicate directly.

The newest site you can locate share accommodation in Sydney is yChatter.com, which mixes social networking with real estate in a fresh way that brings property owners, flatmate finders and renters together. Owners or those searching for a housemate or roommate simply create a listing for their property, and then those trying to find any kind of rental properties in Sydney can browse those listings. Renters create a profile, detailing specifications for what they need in a share accommodation or rental property. They are then able to sort the rental properties on yChatter.com according to those specifications, or look at what else is available. Flatmate finders can do the same with the share accommodation listings on the site.

When flatmate finders or renters find a share accommodation or rental property they like the look of, they then put it on their watch list. This allows them to send a message to the property owner or potential roommate through yChatter.com. They can ask questions about the rental properties, book a viewing of their favourite share accommodation and more.

Cheryl Aitken, co-founder of yChatter.com, says, “It’s never been easier to find rental properties in Sydney. We’ve created a fabulous method for potential tenants and flatmate finders to communicate with owners without having to reveal their contact information until they are ready.”

On social networking sites, people connect by linking to friends and sharing photos with themselves and yChatter.com uses this feature to help renters find the best share accommodation or rental properties that have what they need. Having a photo on the site makes a renter seven times more likely to win the rental properties they want and property owners who upload photos of their rental properties are also more likely to find a great renter.

Managers at yChatter.com recommend looking at several rental properties because it can take just a few days or an entire month to find the right share accommodation. Flatmate finders who don’t post a picture of themselves are going to spend even more time looking.

Property owners also have the opportunity to use the free service from yChatter.com to see who is looking at their rental properties. They can send offers to renters they think would be a good fit. Renters or flatmate finders can then decline or accept the offers right through the yChatter website, making it very easy to indicate their intentions to the owners without having to call them.

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Impressionism was a major artistic movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed primarily in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a particular types of artists who shared a set of similar methods and styles. The most obvious characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together and alsoindependently. Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a period in the early 1870s. The established painter Édouard Manet, whose work in the 1860s influenced Monet and others of the group, also tried the Impressionist style about 1873.

These artists became dissatisfied earlier in their careers with academic teaching’s emphasis on depicting an historical or mythological subject matter with literary or anecdotal overtones. They also rejected the conventional imaginative or idealising treatments of academic painting. By the late 1860s, Manet’s art reinforced a new aesthetic—which was to be a guiding style in Impressionist work—in which the importance of the traditional subject matter was ignored and focus was shifted to the artist’s use of colours, tone, and texture as ends in themselves. In Manet’s painting the subject became a vehicle for the artistic composition of sections of flat colour, and perspectival depth was reduced so that the eye would look at the surface patterns and relationships of the painting rather than into the illusory three-dimensional space it created. About the same time, Monet was influenced by the innovative painters Eugene Boudin and J.R. Jongkind, who depicted fleeting effects of sea and sky by means of highly coloured and texturally varied modes of paint application. The Impressionists also adopted Boudin’s practice of working entirely out-of-doors while present in the actual scene, instead of finishing up his paintings from sketches in the studio, as was the conventional practice.

In the late 1860s Monet, Pisarro, Renoir, and others began painting landscapes and river scenes in which they attempted to abstractly paint the colours and forms of objects as they appeared in daylight at the given time. These artists left the traditional landscape palette of muted greens, browns and grays and began to paint in a lighter, sunnier, more airy palette. They started out by copying the play of light upon water and the reflected colours of its ripples, working to copy the many and motion effects of sunlight and shadow and of direct and reflected light that they observed. In their efforts to reproduce immediate visible impressions as registered on the retina, they gave up the use of grays and blacks in shadows as inaccurate and used complementary colours instead. More importantly, they learned to develop objects out of discreet flecks and dabs of pure harmonizing or contrasting colour, thereby evoking the broken-hued brilliance and the variations of hue resulting from sunlight and its reflections. Forms in the pictures no longer were with clear outlines and became softer, shimmering and vibrating in a re-creation of actual outdoor conditions. Ultimately, traditional formal layouts were also abandoned favouring a realistically casual and less contrived positioning of objects within the picture frame. The Impressionists extended these exciting techniques to paint landscapes, trees, houses, and even urban street scenes and famous buildings such as railroad stations.

In 1874 the artists held their first show, separate from the official Salon of the French Academy, which had regularly rejected almost all of their works. Monet’s painting “Impression: Sunrise” (1872; Musée Marmottan, Paris) earned them the initially derisive name “Impressionists” from the journalist Louis Leroy writing of them in the satirical magazine Le Charivari in 1874. The artists themselves soon adopted the name because it perfectly desribed their intention to accurately show visual “impressions.” They held 7 subsequent shows, the last in 1886. During that time they continued to develop their own personal and individual styles. All, however, affirmed in their work the principles of freedom of technique, a personal rather than a conventional approach to subject matter, and the realistic reproduction of nature.

By the mid-1880s the Impressionist collaboration began to disperse as each painter increasingly pursued his own aesthetic interests and principles. In a short time, however, it had accomplished a revolution in the history of art, providing a technical starting point for the Post-impressionist artists Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat and clearing subsequent Western painting from conventional techniques and approaches to subject matter.

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In visiting another country, you will need accommodation. Your accommodation will greatly depend on your budget and personal choice. The most common thing to do is look for a good motel and stay there for the duration of the vacation. But there are many accommodation choices, and a hotel is just one of them. Consider Holiday Rentals -you will find this is as luxurious as the best hotels around.

Among all of the accommodation available -hotels, inns and motels- the better Byron Bay choice will always be Holiday Rentals. In the long run the overall cost is cheaper because there are no tips to give out and service charges to pay. When stayin in a hotel you sometimes need to pay for the use of some facilities and to share the pool, exercise equipment and other facilities with other hotel guests.

With Holiday Rentals, you will feel that you are experiencing the closest thing to being in your own house and you also have the chance live like a local. For many people, this makes Holiday Rentals the preferred Byron Bay accommodation.

A Holiday Rental is the type of Byron Bay accommodation that is ideal for a family. A Holiday Rental means separate bedrooms and bathrooms for family members. They have a living room instead of just a comfortable chair found in a hotel room.

Family members can get together in the living room and share their day, and unlike hotel rooms, Holiday Rentals have full kitchens. This is a bonus if you have specific preferences with regard to food or feel hotel and restaurant food are inferior.

Holiday Rentals are also popular as a romantic getaway. It offers a varying scene and environment to lovebirds. To top it off, couples will have more privacy in a Holiday Rental than any other Byron Bay accommodation. This doesn’t mean that you will be isolated however, as these properties are accessible to fun locations. It’s easy to go to other beaches, city centers, places of interest and then go back to the comforts of your ‘home-away-from-home’. Byron Bay Holiday Rentals erases all the negatives and doubts of holidays. You won’t have any hassle with dealing directly with property owners. Holiday Rentals manages properties for owners and only deal with top-quality homes. The most difficult thing you will probable encounter is choosing which place to stay!

With Holiday Rentals you can be assured of cleanliness and safety. If you like the idea of Holiday Rentals but aren’t sure of your destination, Byron Bay Holiday Rentals can help. We are familiar with Byron Bay and specialise in personalized service.

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What are the top ten places to shop around Australia? There are several tremendous areas of shopping excellence and we have listed several for your convenience. Retail, food and beverages are all a modern-day priority in the land of luxury. Browse the list and shop with delight.

Chadstone Shopping Centre -Melbourne, VIC
This is Australia’s first free-standing regional shopping centre and is located in Melbourne. It is the biggest mall in the Southern hemisphere, including 530 shops within a luxury precinct featuring twelve global brands. Join the fashion elite, with the best selection of Australian and international brands under one roof. Chadstone is a must for the visitor to Melbourne. Get on the free shuttle service to Chadstone, departing from Melbourne’s CBD -the shuttle will wizz you to Chadstone and have you shopping in just thirty minutes!

Harbourside -Darling Harbour, NSW
Located on the water’s edge of Darling Harbour, Harbourside is only a short walk from the CBD and has magnificent views of the city’s skyline. Harbourside provides a great dining, leisure and shopping experience. Home to many quality stores and eateries, Harbourside has an ambience and style that captures Australia’s warmth, hospitality and cultural diversity. All Harbourside specialty stores are open from 10am to 9pm daily with selected cafes opening earlier for breakfast and cafes, bars and restaurants open later at night.

Pacific Fair -Broadbeach, QLD
The Gold Coast’s premier fashion destination and mall, Pacific Fair offers the Coast’s largest and best collection of fashion and accessory retailers, and is home to the Gold Coast’s largest Myer with all the brands you love. If you are looking for a quick bite and a chance to sit back and relax after a busy morning shopping then discover the best and freshest fast food at Jamaica Blue, Sumo Salad, or The Coffee Club, just to name a few. Also selling fresh, seasonal produce you can cook with at home, your weekly grocery requirements or a delicious prepared meal -all are available at Pacific Fair. Everything you might need and want for your lifestyle can be found at Pacific Fair. Visit Myer, Target, Crabtree & Evelyn, Bed Bath n’ Table, Adairs and many more for all your homeware and décor requirements. Or you could spend the afternoon relaxing at Birch Carroll & Coyle’s 12 Senstadium Cinema Complex, now featuring digital and 3D projection.

Adelaide Central Market -Adelaide, SA
Adelaide Central Market is alive with vibrancy and colour all year round. It is a fabulous market that is over 140 years old and is South Australia’s most visited tourist attraction with over 80 stalls. The Adelaide Central Market is a community of people, artisans and shoppers who share a passion for food. The range of foods is extensive, and all under one roof, with fruit and vegetables, meat and poultry, seafood, gourmet cheeses, cakes and more. People love to return for the delicious aromas, the vivid colours and the atmosphere of an international melting pot of cultures.

Melbourne Central -LaTrobe Street, Melbourne VIC
Melbourne Central has blossomed into an urban inner-city precinct presenting a style-laden destination for shopping, eating and entertainment. There are almost 300 stores to discover in a unique and modern architectural space, reflecting the diversity and evolution of the Melbourne CBD. Melbourne Central is the ‘in’ place of fashion, and is also the key destination for entertainment. Watch buskers, live bands, theatre, or a movie at the eleven-screen Hoyts cinema. Enjoy the fun of Rockstar Bowling or grab a bite to eat at any of the late night bars and cafes. Melbourne Central is supported by an abundance of parking and public transport, and is conveniently located above the Melbourne Central rail station.

Northland Shopping Centre -East Preston, Melbourne VIC
Northland Shopping Centre is the largest retail shopping centre in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, with over 320 retail stores on one level. Getting to Northland is easy with over 4,800 free car parking spaces, including undercover car parks. Located only 11km from the CBD, the bus exchange at Northland also provides easily accessible public transport services.

QV -Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC
QV is the redevelopment of Melbourne’s historic Queen Victoria Women’s Hospital site. QV’s open air, pedestrian-only laneway network provides a unique cultural link to the site’s history, with names carefully chosen to embrace the area’s heritage. Dining in QV is reminiscent of a European piazza bordered with bars and restaurants. Shopping is extensive, as is lifestyle, and entertainment.

Rhodes Shopping Centre -Rider Boulevard, NSW
Rhodes Shopping Centre is home to Bing Lee, Coles, Ikea, Reading Cinemas, and Target among other services including fashion, food, banks, cafes and restaurants, along with homewares, health and beauty.

Rundle Mall -Adelaide SA
Rundle Mall is Adelaide’s premier retail destination and meeting place. With over 400,000 visitors every week and 23 million visitors annually, it is the most popular attraction in the state of South Australia. Rundle Mall offers the largest selection of shopping facilities in Adelaide, including the three largest department stores, plus 15 arcades and centres, 700 retailers and more than 300 non-retail services and offices. The Rundle Mall precinct is an important tourist destination with 85% of all interstate and overseas travellers that visit Adelaide also setting foot in Rundle Mall.

Australia Fair -Southport, QLD
Greek and Roman god Apollo representations, and artworks from Europe and the United Kingdom double as novel landmarks for shoppers at Australia Fair. The huge shopping centre opened on 10th April 1990 -a centre which took more than a year and $300 million to complete, being fully air-conditioned.

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For some of us in Australia, passing over a paper drivers licence as proof of identification doesn’t seem so long ago. The traditional paper based licences were replaced throughout the late 1980’s to early 1990’s with cut, paste and laminate ID cards produced with Polaroid instant photograph technology.

Since 2000 many Australian States have been migrating to digital ID cards, where the ID card information is printed directly onto the ~plastic card~plastic}. It is through the increased demand for instant issue of digital Identification card production technology, that desktop plastic ID card printers have become widely available at affordable prices making them viable solutions for the production of Student ID cards, Club Membership Cards, Loyalty Cards, Staff ID cards, Induction Cards and Other ID cards.

There are two common methods for ID card printers to print to plastic cards; these are Direct to Card Printing, and Re-transfer Card Printing.

Direct to Card – Card Printers

Direct to Card ID card printers print the images to the card via a thermal print head and dye sublimation ribbon, directly to the PVC plastic. PVC plastic is the only good receptive surface for thermal transfer dye sublimation card production. If the cards only require monochrome personalisation, a thermal wax/resin ribbon is used, and while it may printer to a wider range of plastic, PVC cards provide the best print quality.

The most significant issue with direct to card printing is that the print head is in close contact to the plastic card, and any imperfection or contaminant (dust / sand particle) can cause a scratch in the ceramic head, requiring replacement.  Replacement heads can cost as much at $ 1000, so it’s a costly exercise to replace them. Many ID card printer manufacturers consider the print head a consumable, with an average life of 10,000 full colour cards.

Another issue of direct to card printing is that they cannot print reliably right to the edge of the card leaving a thin white border around the card. This is particularly noticeable if the card is designed with dark background.

You will often see ID cards printed on a direct to card printer designed with a mostly white background or in the case of many club membership applications, with the photo and name printed to a pre-printed card design where the card base stock is “offset printed” in a factory in bulk, leaving a space for the photo to be printed later.

Re-Transfer – Card Printers

The alternate printing technology to direct to card is, re-transfer card printing, or “Reverse Image Transfer” printing. This process is where the card printer prints from the thermal print head, via dye sublimation to a clear polyester film. The printed image is reversed as it is then “laminated” via heated roller onto the card where it then appears right way around.

Re-transfer printing has an advantage, because the polyester film has been specially designed to be receptive to the ink from the ribbon and can provide lot clearer, more defined images with great colour accuracy. The image is also stretched slightly to ensure full coverage of the plastic card with “over the edge” printing is possible.

Re-transfer printing is the highest standard of printing in desktop ID card printers today, and while it has a slight premium in cost due to the use of the polyester film, the image quality is far superior to direct to card printers.

Most card printer manufacturers produce both direct to card and retransfer printer models, including PPC, Magicard, Digital Identification, Zebra, Datacard and Fargo.

If you are looking for more specific information on an ID Card Printer in Australia or you need to find a specialist in producing an ID Card. Printers vary in speed, quality, reliability and running costs take the time to get advice on exactly what you need in an ID Card Printing System.

To a counsellor, relationship counselling is usually the most demanding of all therapies as, instead of just one client, there are two, and by the very nature of the situation, there is a difficult situation. However, it can also be most rewarding, as being able to effectively help a couple negotiate their hurts and differences and fall in love again can have a hugely positive impact on the rest of their lives.

As with any counselling, it is essential that your therapist establish rapport with you as a client, and with relationship counselling this aspect is crucial so that each of you feels able to express your problems and thoughts, and feels listened to, empathised and understood by your counsellor.

It is also important that the counsellor remains non-biased, or at least supportive of each person. Good counselling will help you explore the potential of your relationship, no matter how bad a shape it is in at the time.

When you have explained what your issues, concerns and feelings are, a good relationship counsellor will help you gain insight into what underlying patterns and dynamics may be at the root of the problems. He/she will also normalise patterns where need be so you will gain a better understanding of how common your particular issues are.

While it’s necessary to have the opportunity to get out the issues each of you hold, it is also equally important to work with positivity, as too much negativity is almost always a factor once a couple has experienced problems for awhile.

This is done in two parts. Firstly is to think about and appreciate what positive things and strengths that are already in your relationship -to acknowledge and celebrate them (the fact that you both came to relationship counselling to improve your relationship means at the very least you both value it).

Secondly, it’s important to create a positive plan to improve or overcome the issues each of you are experiencing. I usually do this by encouraging each client to consider what would be on their Top 5 “asks” on their Positive Want list, that if they were to happen would make them very happy with their relationship. (These are usually their issues turned into an “ask” in a positive manner.) In this way, we can often resolve the problems of each person in a positive and reciprocal manner. Then each one can be worked through beginning with the top priority for each partner.

When a new plan of action for each person is agreed upon, it is important as a partner to honour these new promises, and for the therapist to remind you and keep you accountable, as well as to be supportive of any challenges you may be experiencing. Ultimately, actions will speak louder than words as you work towards a better relationship, and your therapist ought to encourage and support you as you move closer toward that goal.

Need help? For relationship counselling Brisbane or relationship counselling Sydney talk to Hart Relationship Counselling. Our relationship counselling Sydney centre is located for your convenience in the CBD Medical Centre in Pitt Street Sydney.