Married and Dancing without Spouse

[Sabrosura]

Partner dancing as a therapy for people with relationship issues! Very interesting thought. May be it can work. I hope someone somewhere is researching this as a therapeutic option in addition to counselling, etc. I think it might even work for people who are in depression.

After all partner dancing has proven to be a bit helpful with dementia.

There is probably not much in the sphere of emotional and mental health that partner dancing, and the positive effects of the accompanying music, doesn't help with.

 

[Offbeat]

There is probably not much in the sphere of emotional and mental health that partner dancing, and the positive effects of the accompanying music, doesn't help with.

Agree. You put it better than I did! Music therapy is prevalent. But not partner dancing, which I think may provide more benefits than music therapy alone.

 

[David]

Partner dancing as a therapy for people with relationship issues! Very interesting thought. May be it can work. I hope someone somewhere is researching this as a therapeutic option in addition to counselling, etc. I think it might even work for people who are in depression.

After all partner dancing has proven to be a bit helpful with dementia.

Sure, to give another example, dancing helps with shyness. It helped me big time.

 

[salsamarty]

There is probably not much in the sphere of emotional and mental health that partner dancing, and the positive effects of the accompanying music, doesn't help with.

This is assuming the couple can make it through beginner's hell. I've seen plenty of newbie couples get angry at each other during their first lesson. It's also tough on men who start dating a woman who is already proficient. However, it worked for my wife and I. We stuck it out together and progressed at about the same rate together, at least for the first couple of years.

 

[manteca]

If your relationship can handle the stress of learning something together, that says a lot. I think in particular, learning dance together can reveal a lot of "subtext" that we normally think we are hiding from others. I always find it amazing how much you can pick up from another person just by paying attention to what they're doing while they dance. And watching a couple learn to dance together can be very enlightening as well as entertaining.

 

[Offbeat]

This is assuming the couple can make it through beginner's hell. I've seen plenty of newbie couples get angry at each other during their first lesson.

From dancing as a therapy, I don't think beginner's hell applies You are just trying to get benefit out of coordination between your motor control, thinking ability, navigation with added complexity of having to get in sync with the partner. To put it very crudely of course.

Whether you are a couple or not, no reason to dance with each other.

 

[Lawndart]

No doubt this is true. This thread has taken a very interesting turn.

hheheheheh... In one beginners class a very wise instructor would ask all the couples to join up at the end of the class. Then he would joke... "I just want to see who is fighting" as a way to diffuse the tension.

If your relationship can handle the stress of learning something together, that says a lot. I think in particular, learning dance together can reveal a lot of "subtext" that we normally think we are hiding from others. I always find it amazing how much you can pick up from another person just by paying attention to what they're doing while they dance. And watching a couple learn to dance together can be very enlightening as well as entertaining.

 

[Kading]

If your relationship can handle the stress of learning something together, that says a lot. I think in particular, learning dance together can reveal a lot of "subtext" that we normally think we are hiding from others. I always find it amazing how much you can pick up from another person just by paying attention to what they're doing while they dance. And watching a couple learn to dance together can be very enlightening as well as entertaining.

Yeah I love watching beginner couples dance.
You have some couples who just dance the whole evening with each other, learning and not caring at all if stuff goes wrong. Simply smiling at each other the whole time.
Then you have the couples that first sit out a very long time, do an awkward dance and sometimes even blame each other when the dance doesn't work.
I always assume the second couple won't last long.

 

[Desafinado]

Many dance partners, even performance or competition partners, are married couples; but I know of a couple where one person switched teams so they wouldn't have to practice together, and of another couple that will only dance with other people, even if they're out together at the same venue.