Emotional Abuse - Why Marriage Counseling Makes it Worse

If you live with a resentful, angry, or emotional abusive person, you have most likely have already tried marriage counseling or individual psychotherapy. You may have tried sending your partner to some kind of anger-management group. Let me guess your experience: Your personal psychotherapy did not help your relationship, marriage counseling made it worse, your partner's psychotherapy made it still worse, and his anger-management or abuser classes lowered the tone but not the chronic blame of his resentment, anger, or abuse.

Fortunately, you can learn something about healing from each one of these failed treatments, which we will examine next, one by one.

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Why Marriage Counseling Fails

Emotional Abuse - Why Marriage Counseling Makes it Worse

By the time most of my clients come to see me, they have already been to at least three marriage counselors, usually with disastrous results. A major reason for their disappointment is that marriage counseling presupposes that both parties have the skill to regulate guilt, shame, and feelings of inadequacy without blaming them on one another. If your husband could reflect on the motivations of his behavior - what within him makes him act as he does-he might then disagree with you or feel he can't communicate with you or feel incompatible with you for any number of reasons, but he wouldn't yell, ignore, avoid, devalue, or dismiss you in the process. If your husband were able to regulate his own emotions, your marriage counseling might have been successful.

Another strike against marriage counseling is manifest in an old joke among marriage therapists: We all have skid marks at the door where the husband is being dragged in. As you well know, men do not go voluntarily to therapy as a rule. So therapists tend to go out of their way to engage the man because he is 10 times more likely to drop out than his wife. If the therapist is sufficiently skilled, this extra effort to keep the man engaged isn't a problem, in normal relationships. But in walking-on-eggshells relationships it can be disastrous, because the therapist unwittingly joins with the more resentful, angry, or abusive partner in trying to figure out who is to blame in a given complaint. Of course he or she won't use the word, "blame." Most marriage counselors are intelligent and well-meaning and really want to make things better. So they will couch their interventions in terms of what has to be done to resolve the dispute, rather than who is to blame. Here's an example of how they go wrong.

Therapist: Estelle, it seems that Gary gets angry when he feels judged.

Gary: That's right. I get judged about everything.

Therapist: (to Estelle) I'm not saying that you are judging him-

Gary: (interrupting) Oh yes she is. It's her hobby.

Therapist: (to Estelle) I'm saying that he feels judged.
Perhaps if your request could be put in such a way that he wouldn't feel judged, you would get a better reaction.

Estelle: How do I do that?

Therapist: I noticed that when you ask him for something, you focus on what he's doing wrong. You also use the word "you" a lot. Suppose you framed it like this. "Gary, I would like it if we could spend five minutes when we get home just talking to each other about our day." (to Gary) Would you feel judged if she put it like that?

Gary: Not at all. But I doubt that she could get the judgment out of her tone of voice. She doesn't know how to talk any other way.

Therapist: Sure she does. (to Estelle) You can say it without judgment in your voice, can't you?

Estelle: Yes, of course I can. I don't mean to be judgmental all the time.

Therapist: Why don't we rehearse it a few times?

So now the problem isn't Gary's sense of inadequacy or his addiction to blame or his abusiveness, it's Estelle's judgmental tone of voice. With this crucial shift in perspective introduced by the therapist, Estelle rehearsed her new approach. Gary responded positively to her efforts, while the therapist was there to contain his emotional reactivity. Of course at home, it was quite another matter, despite their hours of rehearsal in the therapist's office.

In a less reactive relationship, the therapist's advice wouldn't be so bad. It's questionable whether it would help, but it wouldn't do any harm. If Gary could regulate his emotions, he might have appreciated Estelle's efforts to consider him in the way she phrased her requests; perhaps he would have become more empathic. But in the day-to-day reality of this walking-on-eggshells relationship, Gary felt guilty when Estelle made greater efforts to appease him. Predictably, he blamed it all on her -- she wasn't doing it right, her "I-statements" had an underlying accusatory tone, and she was trying to make him look bad.

By the way, research shows that therapists behave in their own relationships pretty much the same way that you do. In disagreements with their spouses, they fail just as much as you in trying to use the "communication-validation" techniques they make you do in their offices. They find it as tough as you and your husband do to put on the brakes when their own emotions and instinct to blame are going full throttle. After all, how is Mr. Hyde supposed to remember what Dr. Jeckyl learned in marriage counseling?

One popular marriage therapist and author has written that women in abusive marriages have to learn to set boundaries. "She needs to learn skills to make her message - 'I will not tolerate this behavior any longer' - heard. [The] hurt person [must] learn how to set boundaries that actually mean something." This is the therapeutic equivalent of a judge dismissing your law suit against vandals because you failed to put up a "Do not vandalize" sign. You have to wonder if this therapist puts post-its on valued objects in her office that clearly state, "Do not steal!"

Putting aside the harmful, inaccurate implication that women are abused because they don't have the "skill to set boundaries," this kind of intervention completely misses the point. Your husband's resentment, anger, or abuse comes from his substitution of power for value. It has nothing to do with the way you set boundaries or with what you argue about. It has to do with his violation of his deepest values. As we'll see in the chapter on removing the thorns from your heart, you will be protected, not by setting obvious boundaries that he won't respect, but by reintegrating your deepest values into your everyday sense of self. When you no longer internalize the distorted image of yourself that your husband reflects back to you, your husband will clearly understand that he has to change the way he treats you if he wants to save the marriage.

One of the reasons marriage therapy fails to help walking-on-eggshells relationships is that it relies on egalitarian principles. Noble an idea as it is, this approach can only work in a relationship in which the couple sees each other as equals. Remember, your husband feels that you control his painful emotions and, therefore, feels entitled to use resentment, anger, or abuse as a defense against you. He will resist any attempt to take away what he perceives to be his only defense with every tool of manipulation and avoidance he can muster. In other words, he is unlikely to give up his "edge" of moral superiority - he's right, you're wrong - for the give-and-take process required of couples' therapy. And should the therapist even remotely appear to "side" with you on any issue, the whole process will be dismissed as "sexist psychobabble."

Many men blame their wives on the way home from the therapist's office for bringing up threatening or embarrassing things in the session. Two couples I know were seriously injured in car crashes that resulted from arguments on the way home from appointments with therapists they worked with before I met them. I'm willing to bet that if you've tried marriage counseling, you've had a few chilly, argumentative, or abusive rides home from the sessions.

The trap that many marriage counselors fall into (taking you with them) is that resentment - the foundation of anger and abuse - can seem like a relationship issue. "I resent that you left your towel on the bathroom floor, because it makes me feel disregarded, like my father used to make me feel." But as we have seen, the primary purpose of resentment is to protect the vulnerability you feel (or he feels) from your low levels of core value. Please be sure you get this point: Low core value is not a relationship issue. You each have to regulate your own core value before you can begin to negotiate about behavior. In other words, if self-value depends on the negotiation, you can't make true behavior requests - if your "request" isn't met, you will retaliate with some sort of emotional punishment: "If you don't do this, I'll make you feel guilty (or worse)." Merely teaching the couple to phrase things differently reinforces the false and damaging notion that your partner is responsible for your core value and vice versa.

Many women live with resentful, angry, or abusive men who seem to the rest of the world to be "charmers." I've had cabinet secretaries, billionaires, movie stars, and TV celebrities for clients, all of whom could charm the fur off a cat, in public. Before they were referred to me, each one of these guys had been championed by marriage counselors who concluded that their wives were unreasonable, hysterical, or even abusive. They have no trouble at all playing the sensitive, caring husband in therapy. But in the privacy of their homes they sulk, belittle, demean, and even batter with the worst of them.

These men have gotten so good at charming the public, including their marriage counselors, because they've had lots of practice. Since they were young children, they've used charm and social skills to avoid and cover up a monumental collection of core hurts. Though it can be an effective strategy in social contexts, this masquerade falls flat on its face in an intimate one. If your husband is a charmer in public, his resentment, anger, or abuse at home is designed to keep you from getting close enough to see how inadequate and unlovable he really feels. In fooling the marriage counselor and the public at large, he makes a fool of you but an even bigger one of himself.

Why Your Psychotherapy Did Not Help Your Relationship and His Made It Worse
Research and clinical experience show that women in therapy tend to withhold important details about their walking-on-eggshells relationships. Most say that they're embarrassed to be completely honest with their therapists. One woman told me that she was convinced that her therapist, whom she thought was "awesome," wouldn't like her if she knew about the harsh emotional abuse at home. Though it is incredibly hard to believe, she saw that same therapist for five years without ever mentioning her husband's severe problems with anger and abuse. By the time I was called in, the woman was suffering from acute depression and anxiety that were destroying her physical health. When I spoke to the therapist, however, she had no clue about the abuse.

When therapists are aware that their clients are walking on eggshells at home, they feel almost bound to persuade the woman to leave the relationship. The most frequent complaint I hear from women who have undergone this kind of advocacy therapy is that they were reluctant to reveal the depth of their guilt, shame, and fear of abandonment to their disapproving therapists. Some have reported that their counselors would say things like, "After all he did to you, and you feel guilty?" I have heard hundreds of women report this kind of pressure from their therapists and have heard hundreds of therapists at conferences express exasperation about their clients' reluctance to leave their walking-on-eggshells relationships. The trainings I do for therapists worldwide always emphasize the utter necessity of compassion for their clients' enormous burden of guilt. Making hurt women feel ashamed of their natural (albeit irrational) feelings of guilt is intolerably bad practice. Compassion for her core hurts is the healthy way to help her heal her pain.

Despite these problems, your psychotherapy probably helped you a little, even though it did not help your relationship. Whether it helped your husband is another matter.
The goal of traditional psychotherapy is to reprocess painful experience in the hope of changing the way the client sees himself and his loved ones. If your husband's therapy unearthed painful experience from his past, without first teaching him basic emotional self-regulation, he most likely dealt with that pain in the only way he knew how -- by taking it out on you. He either seemed more entitled to display resentful, angry, or abusive behavior or used the pain of his past as an excuse for it. Here are the sort of things women hear from resentful, angry, or abusive men who are in therapy:

"With all I've had to put up with, don't you hassle me, too!"

"It's so hard being me, I shouldn't have to put with your crap, too!"

"I know I was mean to you, but with the pain I've suffered, you have to cut me some slack."

In defense of your husband's therapist, this approach is designed to make him more empathic to you eventually. But it takes a long time - a great many weekly one-hour sessions - before his sense of entitlement gives way to an appreciation of your feelings. And once he reaches that point, he has to deal with the guilt of how he's treated you in his "pre-empathic" years. For at least a few more months of slow-acting therapy, he'll feel guilty every time he looks at you. Without the skills offered in the Boot Camp section of this book, he'll either lash out at you for making him feel guilty or distance himself from the wrongly perceived source of his pain - you.
As we've already seen, marriage counselors have to make special efforts to build a working alliance with reluctant male clients. That formidable task is all the harder in the more intimate context of individual psychotherapy with a man who dreads exposing vulnerability, as just about all resentful, angry, or abusive men do. To establish and nurture this tenuous alliance, therapists will often employ a technique called "joining." He or she may validate your husband's feelings about your behavior, both for the sake of the therapeutic alliance and out of fear that he'll drop out of therapy, as most men do before making any real progress. Your resentful, angry, or abusive husband will likely interpret the best "joining" efforts of his therapist as reinforcement that he has been mostly right all along and you have been mostly wrong. To make matters worse, most therapists have a bias to believe what their clients tell them, even when they know that they're getting only half the story and a distorted half at that. This is a bit hard to swallow when you consider that many resentful, angry, or abusive men make their wives sound like Norman Bates's mother -- they're just minding their own business, when she comes screaming out of nowhere wielding a bloody knife.

If you were lucky enough to communicate with your husband's therapist - and that's something that most resentful, angry, or abusive men will not allow - you probably heard things like this.

"He's really trying, give him credit for that."

"As you know, he has so many issues to work through."

"We're starting to chip away at the denial."

The message to you is always, "Continue to walk on eggshells and hope that he comes around."

Why Anger-Management Didn't Work
Research shows that anger-management programs sometimes produce short-term gains, and that these all but disappear when follow-up is done a year or so later. That was almost certainly your experience if your husband took an anger-management class. They are especially ineffective with men whose wives have to walk on eggshells.

The worst kind of anger-management class teaches men to "get in touch with their anger" and to "get it out." The assumption here is that emotions are like 19th century steam engines that need to "let off steam" on a regular basis. These kinds of classes include things like punching bags and using foam baseball bats to club imaginary adversaries. (Guess who would be the imaginary victim of your husband's foam-softened clubbing?) Many studies have shown conclusively that this approach actually makes people angrier and more hostile, not to mention more entitled to act out their anger. Participants are training their brains to associate controlled aggression with anger. Could the designers of these programs really think women would be pleased that their men learned in anger-management class to fantasize about punching them with a foam bat?

Of course, there is a much better alternative to both "holding it in" and "getting it out." In the Boot Camp section of this book, your husband will learn to replace resentment, anger, and abusive impulses, with compassion for you.

Hopefully, your husband did not attend one of these discredited classes on anger expression. But you might not have been so lucky when it came to the second worse form of anger-management: "desensitization." In that kind of class your husband would mention your behaviors that "push his buttons," things like you "nagging" him. The instructor would then work to make those behaviors seem less "provocative" to him. The techniques include things like ignoring it, avoiding it, or pretending it's funny. Didn't you always dream that one day your husband would learn to be less angry by ignoring you and avoiding you or thinking that you're funny when you ask him about something serious?

Core hurts -- not specific behaviors -- trigger anger. If the class succeeds in making your husband less sensitive to you "nagging" him, he will nevertheless get irritable when you tell him you love him, as that will stir his guilt and inadequacy. Most important, you don't want him to become less sensitive to core hurts. Quite the opposite, as he becomes more sensitive to them, he will be more sensitive to you, provided that he learns how to regulate his feelings of inadequacy by showing compassion and love for you, which the Boot Camp section will help him to do.

Desensitizing doesn't work at all on resentment, which is the precursor to most displays of anger. Resentment is not simply a reflexive response to a specific event, to something you say or do. Resentment arouses the entire nervous system and works like a defensive system itself. That's why you don't resent just one or two or two hundred things. When you're resentful, you are constantly scanning the environment for any possible bad news, lest it sneak up on you. Anger-management classes try to deal with this constant level of arousal with techniques to manage it, that is, to keep your husband from getting so upset that he feels compelled to act out his anger. "Don't make it worse," is the motto of most anger-management classes. If he was aggressive they taught him to withdraw. If he shut down, they taught him to be more assertive. What they didn't teach him was how to stop blaming his core hurts on you and act according to his own deeper values. If attempts to manage anger don't appeal to core values, resentful men begin to feel like they're "swallowing it," or "going along to avoid an argument." This erodes their self-esteem and justifies, in their minds, occasional blow ups: "I am sick and tired of putting up with your crap!" Then they can feel self-righteous: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

In a love relationship, managing anger is not the point. You need to promote compassion, which is the only reliable prevention of resentment, anger, and abuse.

Emotional Abuse - Why Marriage Counseling Makes it Worse

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7 Tips For Dealing With Jealousy In A Marriage

One major factor why jealousy on one part often leads to an argument is that the other partner doesn't feel that the jealousy is justified. He or she would classify it as 'overraction'.

Arguments originating from jealousy often get irrational and very emotional and it is hard to cope with the negative feelings that emerge from it. However, we should try to grab these negative emotions and use them to make the relationship stronger. At least it is emotions and any emotion can be used in good ways or bad ways.

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Now let's see how you can deal with jealousy in your marriage:

7 Tips For Dealing With Jealousy In A Marriage

1. Try to get an insight of your inner self

Start with asking yourself what was the exact situation when you were getting jealous. Has your partner actually done something that you should not trust him or her. Or was it just your imagination that this could happen some day soon? Fear is usually the number one factor creating jealousy.

Trust is the enemy of jealousy. If there is enough trust on both sides jealousy will never get a chance in a relationship.

Is it really worth the emotional effort to allow all these negative feelings to take over?

2. Jealousy has its roots in our natural desire to preserve what we have and keep things and people that we think belong to us. Jealousy in certain doses can actually add some spice to your marriage and keep the tension alive that is needed. However when it gets too strong jealousy becomes destructive.

Men and women alike will want to 'protect their territory' and a person we are married to belongs to this territory. This is hard-wired into human behavior and we cannot change it.

Keep this in mind and you will be able to channel these feelings towards improving your marriage.

3. It is crucial that you track down the cause of these feelings. Usually there will be some type of fear on your side that is the cause for jealousy.

It might be that the cause for this fear lies in some situation or experience you have had with another partner some time ago.

There might be many other causes but most of the time there has been one particular occurrence in the past that caused that certain type of trust to get lost and be replaced by chronic distrust and fear.

If you can manage to find the root for these feelings within yourself you will be able to deal with jealousy much better than before.

4. Jealousy can also have other forms

It might be that you suspect that your partner is betraying you If this is the case you need to determine if there really was any objective evidence or if the cause for it was just distrust on your side.

You can only address your feelings if you can find out the root of the problem.

5. Try to think for a moment what jealousy does to the feelings of your partner.

Very often jealousy can end in divorce if the couple cannot find a way to manage these feelings.

Have you ever thought how it feels if your partner is jealous all the time? Try to put yourself in the shoes of your spouse and understand what this would do to your feelings if your were him or her.

6. Fighting irrational jealousy through better understanding of yourself

In case you find that the reason for jealousy is low self-esteem then you should work on changing your attitude. Of course this is easier said than done but many couples have successfully managed to keep this dangerous animal jealousy under control through gaining a better self-understanding first.

7. Learn to accept risks.

Jealousy is often caused by the fear of being disappointed.

However, there is no way you can rule out ever being disappointed. Life is full of ups and downs and there is no way to only take the ups fearfully avoiding the downs. This is why you must accept taking risks in life and love.

Learning to deal with these feelings will help you to fix your marriage and have a happier and lasting relationship.

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Top 10 Ways to Propose Marriage

Below are the top 10 ways to propose marriage:

- In the event that you have beaches that are close by you could take her there right before sunset. Enjoy a nice ride with easy going music in the car. When the sun sets take out the ring and propose.

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- One of the best top 10 ways to propose marriage is to plan an extensive treasure hunt. You can start the hunt out by giving your soon to be partner in marriage the first clue. Be sure not to make the clues easy and not to difficult. When your partner comes to the last place be there waiting holding the ring out in your hand ready to propose.

Top 10 Ways to Propose Marriage

- Another one of the best ways to propose marriage to her is too go out on a boat ride. Take her somewhere and then fake the boat being stuck after "much struggling" finally say something along the lines of "without you in my life I would feel like I was stranded on an island that no ship ever came to pass" bride to be name here, will you marry me.

- A classic and one of the most effective top 10 ways to proposal is getting down on one knee and asking your girl to marry you. Although repetitive it does tend to work almost every time.

- Here's yet another sure fire way to win your lover with this marriage proposal. Simply layout some rose petals and or other flowers on your front lawn spelling about "Will You Marry Me". Trust me; your lover is going to absolutely love this. This is certainly one of the top 10 ways to propose marriage.

- Take your lover to a special place where you can easily shout and hear your echo without disturbance. Start off with something like "I Love you", let her answer and then when she's done stand behind her and shout as loud as you can "Will You Marry Me". When she turns around have the jewelry box open with you on one knee presenting her with your engagement ring. Follow the evening up with a spectacular dinner at a great restaurant.

- Another option from our list of the top 10 best ways propose marriage is to setup a nice dinner at her favorite restaurant and have it accompanied by a violinist or pianist and as you order desert have the waiter bring out a dish with the wedding ring on it. Make sure the box is open for you to take the ring and has rose petals surrounding it. Now all that's left is to "pop the question".

- If you really want to impress your soon to be wife considering having a plane spell your proposal in the air for you. Yes, those magic words "will you marry me"!

- One of the most common top 10 ways to propose is going where the two of you first met. When you go to the place where you first met her reminisce for a few moments and then take out the ring, get down on one knee, and ask her to marry you.

- Last but not least on our list of top 10 ways to propose marriage is to create a memory book. Take a note book and make it like a diary of your time together. Towards the end cut out the center of enough pages to fit a ring in and as you turn to that page ask her to marry you.

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Marriage Decorations

Everybody desires to have a unique decoration theme for their wedding reception as well as other ceremonies. Usually People are really fond of grand decorations on their weddings. People, who visit Australia to celebrate their wedding there, can make it truly special and creative by innovative decoration ideas. Your overall decorations should match with the theme. If you tend to follow a theme for the wedding, then you should be prepared with all the items required for the decoration that match with that theme.

There are various points that need to be considered while planning for the decoration of your wedding. The decoration includes table settings, floral choice, venue options, aisle decor, railing decor ideas, bridal bouquets, ring decorations etc. Wedding aisle decoration and railing decoration can add a unique touch to the decoration. It all depends on your budget, how much you wish to spend for the decorations. If you can afford, do plan a railing decoration for making your wedding decorations exclusive and artistic.

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For an inimitable decoration idea you may take the help of magazines, internet, florists or ideas from the wedding ceremonies of your friends and relatives. This will surely load your mind with great decoration ideas. The most important thing is the venue for your celebrations. All your wedding events must be incorporated in a single reception hall, so that you may have to concentrate on a particular venue and have to spend on the decorations at one place only.

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You should make sure that the venue selected by you complements the decoration ideas. After selecting the appropriate location for the wedding, you should start planning various decoration ideas that will suit the place and the surroundings. If you choose the wedding location and the theme for the wedding carefully, you can find a number of innovative decoration ideas without any discomfort.

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Married Women Looking For Married Men

Has married women looking for married men become the new social rage? Many women feel neglected in their marriage. The emptiness of being with a spouse who has turned cold and indifferent is a recipe for sheer misery.

Likewise, many married men looking for women are in the same boat. Sometimes, we see a nagging wife who is very critical of her husband's goals in life. The nagging brow beater will totally drain the love out of a marriage and suck the life from their partner.

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However, criticism and coldness may not be the only cause if one is married looking for an affair. Sometimes the activity of married women looking for married men is the result of plain boredom and sexual dissatisfaction. In other cases, we often see and hear about a wife who has 'cut off' her husband's sexual needs. Female frigidity cuts the most vital connection of a healthy marriage. A man in such a position feels that something else has been 'cut off' too! (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun) In response, we see married men seeking women to discreetly fill the need.

Married Women Looking For Married Men

Let's be frank. In most cases, physically healthy married women looking for married men need sex. They need a good emotional outlet too; a chance to feel the excitement of flirtation. If we are spiritually, mentally and physically healthy, then we have a normal desire for strong compatibility, emotional nurturing and good sex.

Men looking for women in this state can be a perfect alternative.

Why would married women looking for married men become such a new social phenomena? As we've all heard, there's "too many fish in the sea". Single young men and ladies abound. However, there's a problem with that.

The reason many married-looking-for-an-affair individuals seek other married individuals is the ability to create a discreet relationship based on mutual silence. There's a 'no strings attached' code that locks such an arrangement.

A divorce could cause the destruction of the family unit, relationships with children and financial stability.

Healthy married men looking for women do not want to pay half their salary to alimony or give the house away. Married women do not want to destroy the relationship with their children or their home.

In fact, in many cases they love their spouse! It is certain compatibility factors and the sexual fulfillment that they cannot get straight after, perhaps many years of trying.

People who are married looking for an affair may be doing so after many years of expensive professional counseling to no avail. Their spouse just does not want to "get with the program".

What is one to do after they give 100% and their partner is giving about 15 on their best day? Have you ever been in such a predicament?

There is an alternative. There is something to do when all else has failed.

There is someplace to go when you need to break the monotony and get relief without the danger of blowing up your life.

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First 6 Months of Marriage: A Few Practical Tips

You have met your soul mate and have just got married. The wedding went perfectly and everyone had a great time. You went on an amazing honeymoon in a wonderful tropical paradise. Both of you had a great time and are riding on a high when you come back from your honeymoon.

Now that you are back your marriage is truly about to begin. The first six months after you get married is a time of great change in your life. Many different challenges will face you and your spouse during the first six months of marriage. These challenges include a possible change in housing, learning to live with another person, and trying to work out a money situation where you will both be comfortable.

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Most couples are living separately before they get married, so they have to try to incorporate two houses into one. This can cause problems, because the guy does not want to give up his "bachelor's pad", and the girl does not want to give up her frilly things. Another major challenge during the first six months of marriage is the fact that you are going to be living with another person all day, every day. This might not seem like a big deal, but it sure can be. Just think of something that your spouse does that might annoy you a little bit, and then think of yourself stuck with that all of the time without a break.

First 6 Months of Marriage: A Few Practical Tips

The final major challenge that a couple must overcome during the first six months of marriage is working out a financial plan both parties can be happy about. Sometimes one of the members of the couple is used to having everything that they want, and spending money all of the time, while the other member is very frugal with their money. This can cause major problems if it is not discussed and dealt with early on. All of these challenges of marriage can cause problems at first, but if the couple truly loves one another and talks about their problems, they will not have these problems for very long.

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What to Do When Your Husband Files For Divorce, But You Want to Save the Marriage

From all of the comments that I get on my blog, the ones from wives whose husbands have just filed for divorce are often the most panicked.  There's no question that being served with or being given divorce papers can cause panic, and the perception that the clock is now ticking.  Most of my readers want to save their marriages despite the fact that their husbands have made it clear that they want out.  However, once a divorce is initiated, the process of saving your marriage is a bit more tricky because you can't know or predict the outcome, and your marriage has now become part of the legal system. 

I must tell you upfront that I'm not a lawyer and I can not offer you any legal advice.  I write about, and my experience lies, with preventing divorces by strengthening and rescuing your marriage, so this article will focus on that aspect, rather than on legal matters about which I have no experience.  I was in this situation myself a few years ago and I was able to turn it around.  The divorce never happened, so I will share with you ways that I was able to avoid it.

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Are The Issues Causing The Divorce Able To Be Worked Out?:  First, I want to make sure that the issues in the marriage are ones that can be overcome.  Most are, but issues that involve abuse, cruelty, and disrespect are typically not issues that can be fixed without serious professional intervention and even then, it's difficult. 

What to Do When Your Husband Files For Divorce, But You Want to Save the Marriage

However, the issues that most people think of as "serious" can often be worked through.  Stress, money issues, sexual incompatibility, lack of chemistry, "falling out of love," infidelity, and "not being able to get along," are all things that stem from martial neglect or external issues that are often a symptom of distance and a lack of intimacy rather than a deal breaking problem.   Many couples just don't realize this.  They think that if these things begin to crop up and don't fix themselves almost immediately, that the marriage is inherently flawed and must end.  In my experience and from my research, this is just not the case.  Often, fixing issues of neglect and communication will render dramatic results in a very short time.

The Biggest Problem You Face Right Now:  So, even if you've identified your marriage as one that can be saved, the problem that you are likely facing right now is that your husband isn't receptive to positive changes, fixing your problems, or working things out.  His filing for divorce is a pretty good indication that he thinks this is the end of the road and he's probably not going to be willing to work with you or hear you out.  

I know this is frustrating and scary, but resist the urge to pull out all of the emotional stops and engage in behaviors that are not only beneath you, but will push him further away anyway.  I'm talking about begging, arguing, threatening, debating, using the kids, etc.  Husbands see right through these things and they only cause more negative feelings and distance.  Try to stop yourself when you are tempted to act without thinking first.  Because in the end, all these things do is cause your husband to want the divorce to happen as quickly as possible to stop his exposure to this behavior. 

Your Best Bet To Turn Things Around And Stop The Divorce: So, with our backs against the wall and time against us, and knowing we can't act in a way that is going to push our husbands further away, this is what, time and again, has shown itself to be the best plan.  The only way to get your husband to be receptive to you is to disarm him.  He has to know that allowing you the time and access to him is not going to result in your trying to change his mind or negative feelings and behaviors.  And, the wall he has erected needs to come down.  You disarm him by waving the white flag or surrender - or at least making him think that you are.

Calmly tell him that although you'd very much like to make the marriage work and still love him very much, you can't deny that he has chosen to end it.  Tell him that you both deserve to be happy and that you will not act in such a way that is counter to this.  Tell him that he is too important to you to end things on bad terms or with ill feelings between you.  Resolve that, on your end, you're going to do everything you can to improve the interactions between you.

Now, take a deep breath.  I know this sounds scary, but think about it.  It's the only way to get you both on the same side and to get him receptive to you.  It's your "in" or your first move in this martial chess game.  And, this is going to get that wall down and help to lessen the tension and awkwardness.

The Second Step To Saving Your Marriage When You're Faced With Divorce: Admittedly, at first your husband may not believe your declarations of being "on board," but your actions are going to show him that you are very serious about this.  You're going to do exactly what you promised.  And, I highly recommend that you get out and see friends and participate in activities that you enjoy.  You want to show your husband that you respect yourself and that you're the same fun, vibrant, alive woman that he first fell in love with. 

Many women ask me if they should date or see other men to make their husband's jealous.  The answer (in my opinion) is no.  Because, even now, you should be communicating that you are still a woman who wants to save her marriage and who loves her husband, but you're just dealing with the cards you've been dealt.  Dating again is not in line with this idea. However, there's noting wrong with letting your going out with friends and having fun "leak back" to your husband, who may just wonder what you are up to.

Because the whole idea here is to disarm your husband and show him / reintroduce him to the woman he first fell in love with.  Because right now, he thinks she's long gone.  Your job is to show him that she is not, and that, if you both play your cards right, he can have her back.

What to Do When Your Husband Files For Divorce, But You Want to Save the Marriage

When my husband filed for divorce, I made many of mistakes I describe in this article. I stalked, begged, threatened, tried to overcompensate, and acted very badly. These things back fired. Thankfully, I finally realized I was doing more harm than good and was able to change course using the tactics discussed here to save the marriage. You can read my very personal story on my blog at http://isavedmymarriage.com/

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Steps to Marriage Reconciliation.

Here are 7 steps to marriage reconciliation that will prayerfully put you and your spouse back on the right track.

1. Swallow Your Pride - The Bible says, pride comes before the fall. That means pride will always lead to your destruction. In this case, the destruction of your marriage. So take a long hard look at yourself. That's right. Even if you believe your partner is the blame for the breakdown of your marriage. Examine yourself to see what you could have done differently. Now accept responsibility for your actions and be willing to admit your mistakes.

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2. Forgive - Once you've swallowed pride, you should ask for forgiveness and then extend forgiveness to your spouse for their offenses against you. Remember, neither of you are perfect. Therefore forgiveness must always be a two way street.

Steps to Marriage Reconciliation.

3. Stop Blaming - Don't waste time pointing fingers at each other. This sort of behavior is unproductive. Instead of approaching your conversations from the standpoint of me vs. you, approach your discussions from the standpoint of us vs. the problem. By doing so, you will avoid the blame game.

4. Learn from the Past - Use your marriage mistakes as a springboard to propel your relationship to a higher level. If you learn from your mistakes, you are less likely to repeat them.

5. Leave the Past in the Past - In other words, let go and move forward. Don't remind your spouse of what s/he did or how things use to be. If you really want reconciliation you've got to let go of the past.

6. Be Patient - Your marriage did not fall apart over night and therefore cannot be repaired over night. Rebuilding your marriage is a process that will take a lot of patience and determination from you.

7. Get Godly Counsel - Don't seek ungodly or unqualified counsel from friends and peers. As a child of God, you should only accept counsel from fellow believers who are spiritually mature. If you don't have such a group of people surrounding you. Or, if you feel like you're in over your head, have the courage to get professional guidance for marriage reconciliation.

Steps to Marriage Reconciliation.

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A Whole World of Unusual Wedding Cakes

A competition to find the most unusual wedding cake would be a hard fought contest. Many couples have abandoned the traditional white tiered fruitcake confection topped with its miniature black suited groom and blushing bride in her foaming white dress. Now there are a huge variety of unusual wedding cakes to choose from offering more personal styles with flavours that suit today's ever-wider choices and tastes.

Themed wedding cakes have become really popular and if you want a unique and original design that has significance to you why not design your own to suit your own personal tastes. Football boots or golf clubs for the sports fans out there. Or R2D2 replicas for all those Jedi knights.

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In different parts of the world the style of this central part of the traditional wedding feast features many different shapes and ingredients. Birdcages, birds of paradise flower and pretty kitten cats, anything goes. The cake is a centrepiece for the reception. It is elaborately decorated and given a position of honour. Wedding cakes in France and Belgium tend to follow the more traditional style of the croquembouche, a cone made of round cream-filled pastries which is dipped in hot toffee. In India, the multi-tiered fruit-based cake takes on a somewhat new twist. A high, "dummy cake," covered in sugar icing may be used. A slice of real cake is inserted into the dummy cake for the cake cutting but what the guests get to eat is not the cake, but instead, a piece of the icing. In Japan wedding cakes take on an entirely different form and artificial cakes, with "icing" of hard wax were often used. Brazilian brides and Grooms give wedding guests a favour called a Bem Casados instead of a wedding cake. This is two pieces of pastry sandwiched together with a caramel cream. They are made in different shapes including hearts, doves and rings. The Italians also replace the cake but with a type of cookie. In Italian it's called a "wanda." And they are arranged in a cake shape on a table. Guests perform a chain dance called the Wanda as well where they parade past the table and each grab one of cookies as they pass by.
The island of Bermuda add to their wedding cakes, a small tree. The day after the marriage, the newlyweds are planting this tree in their garden where they can watch it grow throughout their life together.

A Whole World of Unusual Wedding Cakes

So whether its chocolate and cherries, juicy fruits and berries, fairytale castles, hat boxes and parcels, cascade of lace, aliens from space, pretty cats in straw hats, football boots or tennis bats, unusual wedding cakes are an important and symbolic tradition within marriage everywhere.

A Whole World of Unusual Wedding Cakes

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When to End a Marriage

Since I often write about saving a marriage (even when you are the only one who wants to), I am am often contacted by people (usually wives but sometimes even husbands) who ask me "when to end a marriage."  This is obviously quite a loaded question, but with a little follow up, I am usually able to determine that they really want to know some sort of variation of the following questions: "when is a marriage really over?;" "is my marriage too far gone to save it?;" "is my marriage worth saving?"; and "is there some sort of cut off point when a marriage reaches the point of no return?"  In this article, I will try to answer these questions for you and offer you some tips to ponder to help you to decide if your marriage is really at it's natural end. (Hint, in my opinion, most are not.)

So, how can I say, without even knowing your circumstances, that it's quite possible that it is not yet time to cut your losses? Because you've found this article.  That means that right now you are researching ending or saving marriages.  This tells me that you are at a crossroads or not exactly one hundred percent sure that divorce or separating is the right decision for you.  If you have taken the initiative to educate yourself further, this tells me that you also have the imitative to take some steps to at least explore rescuing the marriage or at least ending it in a positive way, which is a very good sign. 

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That being said, there are very few circumstances where I think it is healthiest to end things once and for all.  These are relationships in which verbal or physical abuse are present and, despite efforts to change this, it doesn't change.  I can not in good faith counsel any one to stay in a marriage where they are being physically or mentally damaged and hurt day in and day out with no relief in sight.

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If this is not the your situation though, then here are some things to consider in deciding whether to end your marriage or to save it.

There Are Still Strong Feelings Between You (Positive Or Negative) Or Conflicting Feelings Swinging Back And Forth: Often I hear from married folks who feel that perhaps there are the point where the marriage is going to end because the husband and wife are just fighting all of the time, or there are often periods of fighting and then making up, or there has been a crises or stressful situation in which strong negative feelings have soured the marriage (money issues, infidelity, illness, etc.)

Almost always, I can detect very strong emotions in these folks. They may be completely angry at their spouse or they may be horribly hurt.  Or, they may be sad and empty because they feel that their husbands or wives don't love them anymore. 

However, what I am often looking for (and hardly ever find) is indifference.  Because when a marriage is one hundred percent and completely and totally over, the parties are typically indifferent.  The marriage is in essence dead and they don't care one way or another. They aren't angry any more.  They aren't hurt anymore.  They just want to cut their losses and move on because they know there are really no unresolved issues left to work out.

This is rarely the case that is presented to me though. Instead, the parties are feeling very strong emotions because in their hearts they know there are unresolved issues or things left unsaid and unresolved (and they still care very much about this - whether they want to admit it or not.) Often, deep down, you subconsciously know that you are leaving some things on the table that if you just brought into the light, it may make a real difference.  But often, people are so afraid of being vulnerable and so afraid of rejection that they would rather cut their losses than take a risk (which might just pay off.)

When Must You End A Marriage Because It Is Too Late To Save It?: Often people will read my articles and then contact me with remorseful comments like "I wish I had read the article sooner.  I may have been able to work things out with my husband then, but now it is too late because my husband is (either really mad, not speaking to me, has or is going to move out, wants a trial separation, etc. etc, fill in the blank). 

My question to them is usually "yes, but are both still alive, right?" Because if you're both still here, still accessible and even one person wants to work it out, and you both aren't indifferent to the other, then in my experience there is always hope. Because it's highly likely that one or both of you held something back for fear of rejection.  Or, perhaps one or both or you lacked communication skills which would have contributed to your spouse understanding your sincerity.  Or maybe there is something that you thought you couldn't move past, but now, with the threat of your marriage ending, you may decide that perhaps you can.

So few issues in marriage (other than abuse) definitely mean the end. Communication, give and take, patience, and sincerity can go a very long way in healing if the cards are played right and you don't hold back or leave things or gestures unsaid or untried.

So, to answer the question "when to end a marriage?," my answer would be that if you are asking me that question, you are not there yet.  If you were truly ready to end your marriage for good, you would absolutely know it and your indifference would probably mean you were no longer searching for answers.

When to End a Marriage

A few years ago, I was sure my marriage was over (because my husband was sure he wanted a divorce.) Although deep down, I did want to save the marriage, I made many mistakes that almost caused it to end for good. Thankfully, I finally realized where I was going wrong and was able to change course and save the marriage. You can read my very personal story on my blog at http://you-can-save-your-marriage.blogspot.com/

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Is My Marriage Over? How To Tell If You Should End Or Save Your Marriage

Your marriage is your life, and that's why it can be such a shocking and devastating experience when you begin to realize that you might lose it all. Nobody copes well with infidelity or any other similar traumatic event in their marriage. You're probably experiencing a range of emotions including anger, betrayal, jealousy and heartache. You'll be asking yourself, "Is my marriage over?"

Well, that's a difficult question to answer, but in reality nobody else can answer this for you. The decision has to be yours, and I'm going to explore why this has to be the case.

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Only You Can Decide If It's Over

Is My Marriage Over? How To Tell If You Should End Or Save Your Marriage

In our society, divorce can be seen as simply the only option if someone has an affair. In the movies today, you would expect to see a strong-willed woman slap their cheating partner around the face, provide a cutting remark and storm off to end the relationship for good.

In reality, it doesn't always end this way, and it doesn't have to. In fact, in my experience, it is actually a better idea to at least try to work it out before going straight through with divorce proceedings.

Whatever your decision, the judgement should come from your own heart. If you decide to work on the marriage, you should strive to right the wrongs of the past and improve the relationship as it was before.

A word of warning: beware of who you confide in. Different people have different reactions to affairs. If you talk to someone in your family, they may say, "Disgusting - he had an affair. Dump him, what a creep." However, if you then decide to work it through and you succeed, that person you confided in may always secretly resent your partner. The same goes if someone tells you to work at it but you decide to move on - that person may think ill of you, even if you do not know it.

Is My Marriage Really Over?

It's down to you in the end, but you should ask yourself some questions in order to come to the right decision in the end:

Has your partner definitely and completely ended the affair?

How committed is your spouse to improving your marriage and working it through? This is important, as it won't be an easy journey.

Can you be fully transparent with each other? Transparency is the key to rebuilding trust in your relationship.

Have you discussed the details of the affair or event that has caused a rift in your marriage? Sometimes opening up the lines of communication is the only way forwards.

Is My Marriage Over? How To Tell If You Should End Or Save Your Marriage

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