Can Giving Someone Space Save a Relationship?
Over the weekend, I got an email from a wife whose husband had requested some “space and difference.” In the wife’s mind, this request was likely the precursor to divorce. Understandably, the wife was afraid that if she backed off and gave her husband the space that he was requesting, he would only drift further away. However, she intuitively knew that giving her husband some distance might be the only way to truly save the relationship and begin to rebuild. She asked me if it was possible to save her marriage by giving her spouse the space he said he wanted. I firmly believe that it can. In fact, I saw this happen in my own life and in my own marriage. I will discuss this more in the following article. Giving Your Partner Space To Eventually Bring Them Closer To You: It’s human nature to cling or pull when you feel or suspect that someone is slipping away. And it’s also completely normal to worry that if they spend any time away from you, they’re going to discover that they enjoy the
