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Relationship Ranch: Couples' Therapy with Horses | Redux

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Relationship Ranch: Couples' Therapy with Horses

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It's fascinating to watch a man trying to win back the love of his life by talking to a horse. Horse therapy has been used for decades to help treat people with physical disabilities or learning disorders, but now they are also being used in an unconventional form of couples counseling. Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET Nancy Hamilton and Lottie Grimes are marriage therapists who run Relationship Ranch in Louisville, Colo. They are convinced that horses can help feuding couples make peace. "You wouldn't think they would have any role in marriage therapy," Hamilton said. "But because horses are so exquisitely sensitive, they can help us determine what a couple is actually, really feeling." For three weekends, "Nightline" followed one couple's last-ditch effort to save their crumbling relationship and attended their equine therapy sessions.

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-0.106616"They're almost like a Rorschach projective test with a mane and a tail, where people can project onto them their feelings, their thoughts and their fears," she said. ...
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Danny

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Lottie Grimes

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