“…First, each model lacks flexibility and adequate explanatory power across all couples and situations, by limiting its scope to a “one size fits all” set of categories and constructs for understanding clients. For example, across multiple evidence‐based couple therapies, a host of constructs are deemed essential to couple disharmony and success, and the presumed mechanisms of change and therapeutic strategies vary for each treatment (Gurman, ; Harris, Kelley, & Shepard, ; Snyder & Balderrama‐Durbin, ). Moreover, individual differences in the sources and functions of couple distress can result in some couples doing better in treatments espousing one model and others doing better in treatments espousing another model (Gurman, ; Lebow, Chambers, Christensen, & Johnson, ; Snyder & Balderrama‐Durbin, ).…”