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What is the fail point in a deteriorating marriage? When is a marriage beyond help? The underlying issue often turns out to be that one or both parties do not want to be in the marriage.
Categories: Marriage
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Tags: alcohol-abuse, commitment, Marriage, marriage help, relationships
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Communication breaks down when you merge telling and sharing and can’t distinguish between the resultant complying and listening, and therefore, seeing them both as listening…or not. Often “he never listens to me” really means “he never does what I want him to do.”
Categories: Marriage
| Tags: comply, complying, effective communication, listening
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Volumes have been written on the importance of taking responsibility. Some of it is psychological, some of it legalistic and much of it moralistic. This article is about taking responsibility for your own emotions, with a focus on marital conflict.
Categories: Emotional Problems, Marriage
| Tags: anger, emotions, marital conflict, take responsibility, taking responsibility
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Life is full of events that lead to personal distress. And stress can build upon stress which can lead to marriage problems. If one of you drinks to reduce stress, in time the drinking itself causes stress and becomes a major roadblock to solutions.
Quite naturally, you look around to see what’s causing your distress and the only person there is your spouse, so you instinctively blame him or her for upsetting you.
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Marriage, News
| Tags: addiction, alcohol-abuse, blame, distress, love and respect, Marriage, marriage problems
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As you contemplate entering a committed relationship, the greater your neediness, or his, the more likely codependency, dysfunction and disappointment will follow. Neediness is a psychological, fear-based characteristic. Neediness in relationships, or in would-be relationships, is paradoxical. The greater the neediness, the less likely it is for legitimate wants and needs to be met. Focus on what you want, not what you need.
Categories: Marriage
| Tags: codependency, Happiness, Marriage, neediness, relationship
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