1st QUESTION: According to the text, what hidden intention does a person usually have when attending sessions about couple problems?

2nd QUESTION: What is the professional's priority task when the user places the responsibility for his or her discomfort on an absent third party?

Reinforce emotional dependency
Requiring the partner to validate every need
Provoke constant confrontations
Giving the person the strength to express his or her needs without requiring the other's validation

Allowing interruptions to clarify ideas
Ignoring each other's exposures
Establishing containment frameworks that prohibit interruption or disqualification during the presentation
Preventing the user from expressing his needs

Continuing to try to persuade the other
Seek methods of emotional control of others
Turn focus inward and define boundaries, clarify needs and decide what scenarios are acceptable
Delegating responsibility for one's own well-being to the partner