If your child is struggling with something you want to be able to help them. It isn’t always easy as a parent or carer to know how to help, what to say or do.

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Sometimes being their parent or carer – with all the demands of that relationship – can get in the way of being able to help. It can sometimes be easier for your child to be honest with someone outside the situation.

As adults we are juggling all the time. Arguably the most precious ball we juggle is family and our relationships.

However, we are juggling with other balls which create their own stresses and pressures, and if dropped have consequences for us.

The family unit comes in different shapes and sizes. Ultimately our family are the people who mean the most to us in our worlds.

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Just because you love your family members it doesn’t mean that things are easy, and families experience stresses and go through all sorts of experiences, including very difficult experiences together.

Your relationship with your partner is unique and different to every other relationship in your life.

To be emotionally and sexually intimate with a partner meets our emotional needs to feel loved, valued, understood, desired and supported in a way which no other relationship in our lives provide