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17 Steps for Coping with an Abusive (or Cheating) Spouse

How much do you tolerate with an abusive spouse? What have you put up with? In this blog I list 17 steps for coping with a spouse that exhibits addictive behaviors. Frequently, addictive behaviors increasingly over time lead to abuse thrown in your direction. 17 Steps for Coping with an Abusive (or Cheating) Spouse 1. […]

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1 EASY Way to Get a Drastically Different Response from your Cheating Spouse

I had a reader and someone I had coached email me the other day with an interesting result to a shift in communication she tried with her husband. Her husband was having an “I don’t want to say no” type of affair. This type of affair often is grounded in a sense of entitlement, a

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Shift #4: From Running from your Spouse to Confronting Your Spouse

One in a marriage or relationship of emotional investment is ALWAYS (instead of confronting your spouse) running away or distancing self or putting on the brakes, at some point, with communication, intimacy, closeness and the process of knowing and being known. In 80% of the marriages you can count on this process. It’s usually men

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Marriage Problem Advice – Shift #3: From Chasing to Confronting

One in a marriage is usually the chaser or pursuer, which is characteristic of a Yellow Marriage (see https://saveamarriageforever.com/ebook.htm for marriage problem advice pertaining to this specific type of marriage). This is an extremely common phenomenon. My experience tells me that 80% of marriages suffer from this dilemma. Much of my coaching with marriages in crisis

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Men, Intimacy and Judgment

Part 5  (Prior post: Men, Intimacy and Patterns) Judgment generates trouble in a marital relationship. You may have a strong need to view yourself as right and your spouse as wrong. You judge his behavior and thoughts as being either acceptable or unacceptable. There may be a little grey area. Of course you do the

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Intimacy in Marriage: Men and Intimacy

Introduction: Intimacy in Marriage I recently offered a new report “7 Reasons Men have Difficulty Getting Close and Staying Close” to my readers and asked for their responses. I wanted to determine how the report was helpful; how it enabled them to gain awareness, make shifts and feel better with their spouses. I offered an

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When to Divorce: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Should you really start thinking about when to divorce when your partner says that he or she has “fallen out of love” with you? This is the second part in my series of blog posts on the commonly used phrase  “I love you but am not in love with You,” which will focus on what

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Resolve the Marriage: Finding a Resolution for Your Marriage Instead of Saving or Ending It

Is it really about saving or ending your relationship with your partner, or do you just want to find a way to resolve the marriage? To resolve the marriage means finding a life-giving, self-respecting, other-respecting avenue to expose the old patterns, undo the old patterns and create new ones that give life, hope, true love

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