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Online
Relationship Advice
Just
A Click Away
You may want to consider online relationship advice if
you are in an unhealthy or troubled
relationship.
There are a
number of pros and cons to internet relationship advice.
It all depends
on what kind of advice you need and what your personal circumstances
are.
Going onto the internet to find solutions to
your relationship issues is a positive step, as is any decision to be
proactive in dealing with your problems.
So, good for you for taking
control of your life and confronting your relationship issues.
Advantage
of using online relationship advice:
- You can find help relatively quick
- You can find generic help and advice for free
- You can remain anonymous...so you will
find you can be more
open about your problems
- There is an enormous amount of information out
there in cyberspace for
all sorts of relationship problems, more information than you can ever
hope to get from one individual
- If you have an embarrassing, or even unusual
problems, you will find,
using the internet, that you are not alone
- Online advice is accessible immediately. There
is no need to make an
appointment with a relationship counselor or set up a date for next
week to meet for coffee with your best friend
- On the internet you can choose the kind of help
and advice you need.
- For instance, you can search for documentary
advice, you can join a
support group or forum, you can search for specific solutions to your
specific problem
- You can easily access scientific research
that is
not generally available otherwise
Disadvantages
of using online relationship advice:
- The internet is a world wide web of information
that is not always
categorized or easily accessible
- On average, your searches will return
thousands of web pages of which perhaps a couple of percent are
directly relevant to your query
- It is unfortunate, but the internet
has become, to a large extent, an enormous marketing tool designed to
part you with your money
- The information you access is often
advertorial rather than editorial
- Going online to find relationship advice can be
a headache. Faced with
billions of words and images, you may find yourself suffering with
information overload
- Information overload can lead to confusion,
precisely what you’re trying to avoid
- Cyberspace is often not reality. Your senses
are limited when you communicate
over the internet, for instance, when you ‘speak’ to an online
relationship counselor.
- When
you have too much information at your disposal at the click of a
button, rather than internalizing information, you tend to take it in
superficially at face value, rather than learning from facts and
creating your own conclusions.
The best
advice for someone who is considering seeking online
relationship advice might be to take a blended advice approach. In
other
words, use the internet to give you ideas, to clarify those
relationship issues you are struggling to get your head around and to
expand your view of the CONTEXT of your problem.
At the same time, you
need to speak to a "live person", whether a relationship counselor or a
friend.
Most importantly, take time out to think and draw your own conclusions
from the advice you receive.
For
additional
relationship
help
advice, such as the online relationship
advice section here, please visit the related
topics: relationship
therapy, relationship
counseling, troubled
relationship, marriage
help, relationship
coach, online
life coach and divorce
advice.
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