I’ve had my head in the sand for too long. I think I need to arrange some counselling to enable me to decide whether and if so how to work on my relationship with my husband. Main issues are in relation to poor communication and what I see as a lack of empathy and kindness on his part, which manifests in (relatively low level) verbal abuse. I have asked him to go to couples counselling but he believes that the issues in our relationship are predominantly down to me and doesn’t want to go to counselling. I know it doesn’t sound great at all, so I really don’t need anyone to tell me that, I just need to talk to someone to work out what I do from here. My preferred outcome would be to keep the family together (we have two young kids) but communicate better. However I have never had any counselling before and when I search online there are so many different types and I guess I don’t know what I’m looking for. Does anyone have any recommendations in terms of whether I’m looking for standard counselling or something a bit different? Would you recommend relate or steer clear? Has anyone ever had success with email counselling or do I need to woman up and go see someone face to face? Thanks so much.