Your answers suggest you’re dealing with some real, recurring difficulties – the kind that tend to wear a relationship down over time if they’re left to run. Maybe the same arguments keep resurfacing, the distance is growing, or you’ve tried to fix things yourselves and keep hitting the same wall. That’s tiring, and it’s a genuinely hard place to be.
On the question you came to ask: yes, this is the kind of situation where couples counselling tends to help. Not because your relationship is broken, but because some patterns are very hard to shift from the inside – you’re both in it, so it’s difficult to see clearly or change the dance on your own. Helping with exactly this is a skilled counsellor’s whole job.
Reaching out isn’t a sign of failure – it’s one of the more practical and hopeful things a couple can do, and the earlier the better, while there’s still goodwill to work with. If you’d like, we can help match you with a relationship counsellor who’s a good fit for what you’re going through.