Marriage Counseling to Save Your Marriage

Jealousy
Jealousy, in small doses, can be good for a relationship, but jealousy can often be harmful. Are you too jealous? Is your spouse too jealous? How can you tell the difference between “good” jealousy and “bad” jealousy, and what can you do to keep jealousy from destroying the trust in your marriage?

Infidelity
Infidelity destroys trust. Trust is not something one partner can give to another. You can beg or demand your spouse to “trust me!” ten or a thousand times without effect. Trust is something we feel or don’t feel. Our ability to trust – or to be trustworthy – may be shaped by our pasts, but if you or your spouse has been guilty of infidelity, nothing can save you from this fact

Stop Divorce Through Honesty
Stop divorce by restoring open communication. If you want to stop divorce from happening to you, you need to eliminate lies and defensive behavior.

How do you stop divorce? You probably already know that lying is wrong and that telling the truth is the way to stop divorce and save your marriage. But do you know that closing yourself off from your spouse in other ways – answering questions with anger or silence, for instance – is also dishonest and may be equally harmful to your relationship? Open communication is essential if you want to stop divorce from happening to you.

Lost That Loving Feeling
Have you lost that “in love” feeling? Has your spouse? Are you wondering what happened to the romance, passion and pleasure in your marriage?

Apologize Already
Learn to be more generous with the words “I’m sorry.” Avoid the “I didn’t do anything wrong!” defense by thinking of an apology in these terms:

If your behavior resulted in your spouse feeling hurt, disappointed or worried, wouldn’t you like to ease those feelings? Saying “I’m sorry I caused your distress” is not admitting wrongdoing, but it can go a long way toward smoothing hurt feelings and preventing arguments or resentment.

Building Fences To Save Your Marriage
Save your marriage by keeping danger out and love within. If you heard your neighbor’s dog had run away when the owners left the gate open, whom would you hold responsible, the dog or your neighbor?

Save your marriage by building a fence around your relationship. If you found out your neighbor had an affair with the tall, handsome, muscular French tutor her husband had hired on her behalf, would you wonder “how could it happen?” or “why didn’t the husband hire a fat ugly tutor instead?”