While they offer a space to build trust, intimacy, and safety, relationships can become neglected, conflictual, or even abusive…The stress couples experience when they can not solve a relationship problem can leave one or both partners in anguish, often leading to contempt or control. Sometimes gender issues and bias play a role in relationship conflict. Relationships may be marred by addiction, or even betrayal…Within families, the sacred bonds can quickly change during a loss such as death or divorce, or even a during a positive event such as birth, adolescence, or launching a teenager into the world. Even work stress on families can make balancing family challenging as well.