How Do You Repair A Troubled Marriage?
I thought about titling this “How to Repair a Broken Marriage,” but that’s a bit presumptuous, wouldn’t you say? If your marriage were broken – truly broken – then you probably wouldn’t be online looking for ways to fix it. You’d probably be signing divorce papers. Yet, you’re here. Which means there’s hope. Let me go ahead and get this out in the open, up front: Marriage counseling works for many couples. It might even work for you and your wife. However, in these economic times, doling out the extra cash for some stranger to try to get to know you, then tell you what’s wrong with your marriage and walk you through a bunch of exercises to try to fix it just isn’t feasible for every couple. One of the main reasons marriages start to fail is a lack of communication. Sure, there are probably other underlying problems – you hate the way she nags you about never spending time with her, or she hates the way you, um, never spend time with her – but the one problem that always amplifies all o
