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Is It Too Late To Save The Relationship?

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You made it. The conditions were rough yet you still accomplished what seemed like an impossible climb out of your own dysfunction in your relationship.

You went through all the healing, growing, learning, and evolving you could, and may have even given your partner the ultimatum to shape up or ship out so that your relationship had no choice but to shift into something new or fall apart completely.

You’ll never go back to the way it was. Is the relationship now “saved”?

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Filed Under: Codependency, Divorce, enabling, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Personal Boundaries, Relationships Tagged With: end of the relationship, growth, healing, how to know it's over, is my relationship doomed to fail?, marriage

Focus on Yourself in Relationship Problems

I often work with clients who’ve been to couple’s therapy but are still stuck where they are in the relationship. In fact, most of the time one partner is “fine” while the other is not. I’ve often found that the one who is not fine is also the one who is trying harder to save the relationship.

Sometimes I am puzzled when I see that the “fine” partner doesn’t see anything wrong, and points the finger at the other person.

“She’s the one with the problem!” or
“He’s the one that gets upset!“

If comments like that have ever come out of your partner’s mouth during a therapy session, then you are most likely in a troubling situation.

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Filed Under: Divorce, Marriage, Passion, Relationships Tagged With: couples counseling, marriage, relationship, therapy

The Delay of Relationship Happiness

The desire to endOne of the issues some of my coaching clients have is a partner that can’t seem to make up their mind.

Their partners know there are problems in the relationship, yet they still procrastinate or say things like, “Yeah, I know I have problems. I’m working on them.”

I know this response well because that used to be me! I used to say, “I know I have issues and I’m doing everything I can to work on them.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Relationships Tagged With: argue, marriage, relationship, trouble

Should You Divorce the Thoughts of Staying in a Bad Marriage?

I received an email from a woman I’ll call “Jenny”. Jenny is in quite an unempowering situation, being married to a man that simply doesn’t care about her. He makes decisions without her, he dismisses her, he disrespects her, and basically does anything he wants, and also expects her to do what he wants. 

Jenny is in an unhappy marriage.

She reached out to me to thank me for helping her and many others that I don’t even realize. It’s true, I have no idea how many people read this blog or listen to the show until they write to me or mention The Overwhelmed Brain in an article somewhere online, so I was grateful to get her message. 

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Filed Under: Ask Paul, Behavior, Divorce, Human Potential, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Personal Boundaries, Relationships Tagged With: divorce, marriage, unhappy in relationship, When is it time for a divorce?

The Long, Dirty Divorce: Enduring The Emotional Drain of a Never-Ending Broken Marriage

divorce marriage separation difficult lawyer attorney nastyI received an email from a woman who’s husband cheated on her, then made her life a living hell during the divorce. She is depressed and has lost her desire for most things in life. Is there a solution to all of this? How do you get from defeated and controlled to empowered and in control when you’re going through a long, dirty divorce? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Personal Boundaries, Podcast Episode, Relationships Tagged With: cheating, divorce, Infidelity, marriage, relationship, separation

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