A study was conducted at Kansas Sate University surveying some 500 men and women asking the question: which would worse: imagining your partner involved in passionate sexual cheating or your partner engaged in emotional cheating with someone else? And, following the lines of gender stereotypes, the study concluded that men would be more disturbed by […]
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The Unhappy Marriage: The “Falling out of Love” Process A Marriage and Family Therapist outlines the 3 stages In this article I will outline the 3 steps of an unhappy marriage that most of us, actually everyone that I’ve encountered, go through as we “fall in love” and then fall “out of love.” At the
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Conventional marriage tips and advice often offer ways for you to “fix” your marriage or relationship crisis. It is suggested you look “out there” to a therapist, to a skill, to a seminar or to a book to solve the problem. You also, sometimes obsessively, focus on your partner or spouse attempting to elicit assurance
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Tip #2 for how to save a failing marriage involves enlarging your world. Those typically with marriage trouble believe they’ve said it all. In reality, most have much much more to communicate, yet fail to realize or be aware of what is unsaid. Learn 5 specific ways you can enlarge your world during your marriage
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How to save a broken marriage involves paying close attention to the “5 tips to End the Marital Crisis and Pain Once and Forever.” Learn when you are MOST vulnerable to a broken marriage or marriage crisis. Discover why conventional advice to save a broken marriage doesn’t work or is only a temporary fix for
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The act of speaking, your voice is often difficult in the beginning since you probably have little experience or knowledge of how to effectively speak your voice and live your power. Speaking your voice does not mean anger, control, loudness or contorted body language. There are many nuances to speaking your voice, which you can
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Take a minute. Isn’t this true? Don’t you truly want an intimate relationship in which you can feel appreciated, wanted, acknowledged, affirmed and to touch and be touched? You want to be known and to know in a genuinely heartfelt way. You long for that. Your toughness, your prickles, your withdrawal and your constant frenetic
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You are perceived as the recalcitrant spouse, the uncooperative one and the bad person for not getting with the program. You receive this message from others. And, you may believe that of yourself as well, at least to a disturbing degree. You believe it is important therefore to swallow the not so nice words on
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I had a rather strange phone conversation with one of my “readers” a couple days ago. If not strange it was at least different; the first of its kind. The woman said she didn’t want my materials because it was more like a workbook and she just wanted to read. I didn’t ask many questions,
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You are not trying to be bad, stubborn, passive or whatever. You are merely trying to control your feelings and your thoughts. You are doing the best you can considering the coping mechanisms you bring, your situation and a number of other factors. You don’t truly want to feel responsible for hurting someone. You don’t
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