How to Cope with Spouses who Blame, Criticize and Verbally Abuse
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How to Cope with Spouses who Blame, Criticize and Verbally Abuse

Are you ready to be part of the solution by learning how to effectively respond, rather than react, to your spouse’s blaming, criticism, or verbal abuse? It is time for you to realize that if your spouse is repeatedly blaming, criticizing, or verbally abusing you, what you are doing to stop it does not work….

End Your Spouse’s Addiction and Have a Better Marriage
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End Your Spouse’s Addiction and Have a Better Marriage

Badgering your spouse to end an addiction will do more harm than good. You need to combine love and good boundaries if you want to see things change. Trying to build a relationship with an addicted spouse is frustrating and prone to failure. Just when you think you are making progress, you will find your…

Get Better Behavior from Your Spouse without Conflict
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Get Better Behavior from Your Spouse without Conflict

You can get your spouse to change by working on effectively responding to what your spouse is or is not doing If you are like many dissatisfied spouses, you can identify some significant problems that your spouse has. It may be that the only way for your relationship to improve is to somehow get your…

How to Love and Live with an Addicted Spouse
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How to Love and Live with an Addicted Spouse

You can learn how to set healthy boundaries with an addicted spouse. Healthy boundaries will not only help your spouse, but they will also make your life and relationship better. With good boundaries, you don’t need to feel like it’s either settling for a bad relationship or divorcing. You don’t have to give up on…

How to Love a Spouse with Psychological Problems
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How to Love a Spouse with Psychological Problems

If your spouse has psychological problems, you have to have a balance between taking care of your spouse and taking care of yourself If your spouse has an ongoing psychological problem, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, or OCD, it’s easy to change from being a partner to being a caregiver. And that caring may be…

How to Reconcile after a Long Separation and Get Re-Commitment
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How to Reconcile after a Long Separation and Get Re-Commitment

You absolutely can reconcile even if you have been separated a long time. You will have to take the right steps to prevent in indefinite friendship-only relationship. I often receive email from people who have been separated for anywhere from six months to 5 years.  Typically they ask me what the chances are for reconciling…

How to Confront a Cheating Spouse and Rebuild
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How to Confront a Cheating Spouse and Rebuild

You will have to confront your cheating spouse with your knowledge of his or her affair if you hope to save your relationship. But, what is the best way to do that? Before confronting your cheating spouse, you need to: 1) know what you want to achieve, 2) anticipate different responses you may get, and…