Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Top 3 Marriage Killers - How to Avoid and Fix Them and Save Your Marriage Before It's Too Late

The top 3 marriage killers are appropriately named. They will creep into your marriage without warning, take over and before you know it, they're causing havoc and mayhem. If they're not stopped, they WILL end your marriage. So if you want to save your marriage, then make sure you do whatever it takes to avoid them.
The Top 3 Marriage Killers
1) Emotional Distance - When there is distance between a couple, particularly emotional distance there is always the chance for things to go wrong.
We are social creatures. We crave both physical and emotional contact with other people and we will often do whatever it takes to have that contact.
So, whenever you're not feeling close to your spouse, you can easily find yourself looking to someone else for that closeness and that brings real danger to your marriage.
The longer this distance goes on between you and your spouse, the more difficult it becomes to heal.
To fix the number one on the "Top 3 Marriage Killers List" make sure that you fully involve yourself in what your spouse is interested in, make time for you both to be together. Talk to your spouse regularly and share moments of love just like you did when you were courting.
2) Lack of Communication - When things go wrong, if you and your spouse can't talk about it, then you have a tough job on your hands fixing things. That's why it's vital that you avoid the number two on the list.
In your mind go back to when you were dating and you were in the honeymoon stages of your marriage and remember how you used to talk then.
Make time at the end of the day to discuss your individual days!
Never be too busy to listen to your spouse!
Try and be sympathetic and not judgmental when your spouse comes to you with a problem!
3) Face up to Problems - There's a saying that you should never go to sleep on a problem and there is some truth in that. As one of the "Top 3 Marriage Killers" goes one of the worst things that many married people do, is to not face up to problems when they first appear.
To save your marriage, make sure that you start immediately to deal with the tough issues. What might have been something small and unimportant can over time, become huge and lead to major problems.
Pick your moment about how you and when you deal with your problems, but deal with them you must and deal with them now!
If you're afraid to deal with conflict in marriage, then start by accepting that both of you have to compromise and give and you must find a way to disagree without wounding and hurting each other badly.

Mo Simpson

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