Same-Sex Relationship Counselling Dublin – Recognition and Desire
For many same-sex couples, love unfolds under the gaze of others. Sometimes approving, sometimes silent, sometimes judging.
That gaze can shape how a couple experiences themselves, often in ways that are subtle but powerful.
In some relationships, one partner feels the weight of needing to represent something – pride, strength, acceptance. The other may long to be seen without a social frame at all, simply as two people trying to love each other. Underneath, there can be echoes of early experiences: the fear of rejection, the desire to be recognised, the tension between being visible and being safe.
Relationship therapy offers a space where these themes can be explored without needing to defend or perform. The goal isn’t to normalise or categorise, but to understand how each partner’s history shapes their way of relating, and how the relationship itself carries those stories forward.
From a psychoanalytic perspective, recognition isn’t something granted by others – it’s something that emerges from the self, in being able to articulate one’s desire freely, without apology. When that becomes possible, love can take on a different, personal form, one less bound to the expectations of others.
More on Relationship Counselling Book an AppointmentRecommended Reading:
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Vanessa Sinclair, Elisabeth Punzi, Myriam Sauer: The Queerness of Psychoanalysis From Freud and Lacan to Laplanche and Beyond, “Symptom and Discourse”
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Jacques-Alain Miller, “Love and the Other” (The Lacanian Review)
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