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my marriage is in trouble

• A Crowded Marriage
• When You’re Just Done
• Making a Decision When There’s an Affair
• How My Marriage Kept Me Stuck in My Wounds
• Is Affection Built on Nature or Nurture?
• The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Ever Heard a Client Say
• Do I Have to Forget the Past to Move Forward?
• Is Your Relationship Codependent?
• I Can’t Do That to Him
• What Would Happen If…
• The Best Relationships Are Not Without Conflict
• What Happens When We Suppress Our Emotions
• What Does the Super Bowl Have to Do With Your Marriage?
• I Just Want Him Back
• Are you overtaking responsibility for someone else’s feelings?
• The Silent Contract Between You Two
• When do you know the marriage is over?
• One Conversation Created A Miracle For One Couple
• Some Of Your Husbands Will Love Me. Some Won’t.
• Looking For Peace When a Marriage is Crumbling
• My Affair Made Me Feel Alive…or Maybe It was Something Else
• Why Can’t I Love My Husband Again?
• I’m Stuck. I Can’t Leave.
• Why Divorce Should ALWAYS Be an Option
• Why We Don’t Do What We Should Be Doing
• Waiting for Change
• Why is Marriage So Hard? – Part Three
• Why Is Marriage So Hard? – Part Two
• Why is Marriage So Hard? – Part One
• When a Marriage is Tested
• When We’re Not Threatened, We’re Not Defensive
• I’m Stuck. Is That True?
• It’s Going to Get Rough 🌩️
• Three Steps to Getting Your Needs Met in Your Marriage
• A Perfect Storm: Increased Stress and More Time Together
• One Reason for Some Affairs: Disconnection from Self
• Surviving Valentine’s Day when Your Marriage is Struggling
• Do We Need a Clean Slate to Move Forward?
• I Have to Share This Lesson in Perspective with You
• Say “Thank You”
• Obligation and Marriage
• Sounding the Alarm Bells on Gaslighting
• Unconditional Love is Not Unconditional Consequences
• Begin Again
• My Marriage is a Mess. Why Look for Gratitude?
• Alpha Men and Beta Men. Alpha Women and Beta Women.
• Why Most Affairs Don’t Live Happily Ever After
• Give Up the Need to Know…For Now.
• When Loving You is Betraying Myself
• But Aren’t We Supposed to Make Each Other Happy?
• The Most Damaging Lie We Tell in our Marriages
• All Growth and Healing Happens in Community
• Choosing Between Two Men
• I Hope I’m Never Someone’s Contingency Plan
• Women Leave Mentally Before They Leave Physically
• The Intensity of Pain
• We Have High Expectations for Our Marriages
• His Wife Is Changing…and He Doesn’t Like It
• A Marriage Tool for Having Difficult Conversations
• Children and Divorce: What if Your Kids Could Thrive?
• Is It Possible to Heal a Marriage After an Affair? Part 3
• Is it Possible to Heal a Marriage After an Affair? Part 2
• Is It Possible to Heal a Marriage After an Affair? Part 1.
• Is Your Marriage Surviving on Leftovers?
• But My Situation Is Different…
• Ten Tips to Divorce Differently
• Difficult Conversations Will Be Uncomfortable
• Can One Person Make a Difference?
• Surviving Infidelity
• Can I Trust Him?
• Will My Husband Ever Change?
• Understanding Emotional Infidelity
• How Do You Know When Your Marriage is Over?
• Our Arguments Never Get Resolved
• The Five Steps to Having Difficult Conversations
• She was Putting Her Kids in the Middle
• My Musings on Marriage
• The Shame of Staying
• Was Your Marriage Put on a Shelf?
• Are You Growing Closer Together or Drifting Further Apart?
• Resentments of an Alpha Female
• If Your Husband is Controlling, Here’s Why.
• Loving Unconditionally is the Hardest Work We’ll Ever Do
• Why We Avoid Setting Boundaries
• Why People in Healthcare Struggle in Their Marriages
• 1825 Days Without Affection
• Some of the Most Successful People You Know Have Relationship Struggles
• Why Bother Trying?
• Your Relationship Prep for the New Year
• Sharing Some Gifts with You
• Someone Has to Take the Lead
• The Difference between Loving Someone & Using Them…
• What Will Happen If I Let It Go?
• The Danger of Our Expectations. A Very Personal Story.
• The Mature Marriage: Five Signs Your Marriage is in Trouble
• Judgement Doesn’t Help
• Challenging the Inevitable Truth
• Support Groups Seem Like a Perfectly Logical Idea…
• Begging for Affection
• The Tornado of the Type A Woman
• I Don’t Miss Him Because…
• Protecting Your Heart
• How Did We Go from Hope to Hate?
• I Didn’t Go Looking for an Affair
• When We Betray Ourselves
• The Power in Making a Decision
• When You Take Responsibility, You Have the Ability to Respond
• The Four Stages of Marriage
• Some Practical Relationship Advice
• Let’s Talk Love & Bondage…
• Two Years in Therapy and $6500 Later…
• Comfortably Unhappy
• How are You Showing Up as a Woman?
• Given What’s Happening, Should Marriage Still Legally be Allowed?
• It’s Not Magic …But It Is Magical
• A Confused Mind Does Nothing
• If I Lean Back, Will He Lean In?
• Maybe Communication Isn’t the Only Answer to Creating Intimacy
• How Important is the Health of Your Marriage?
• Would You Stay if Your Husband Cheated? Three Questions to Help You Decide if You Should Stay or Go.
• Will My Marriage Last?
• I’m Not the Problem
• This is What to Do with Drama and Struggle
• There is No Such Thing as Destiny
• When We Withhold Love
• The Mature Marriage: Five Signs of a Marriage in Trouble
• Why We Choose to Cheat Instead of Leave a Bad Marriage
• Indecision Sucks
• Why I Love It When My Coaching Clients Stop Working with Me
• We Belong to Each Other
• Anything We Are Experiencing, We Are Choosing.
• He Doesn’t Get It
• Having It All Together is Highly Overrated
• 50 Ways We Leave Our Lovers
• What has been Your Biggest Mistake?
• I’ve Read Everything & Nothing’s Changed
• Neither Wanted to Give In… So They Both Gave Up
• Why is Fifty Shades of Grey so Appealing to Mature Women?
• Can I Afford to Leave My Husband?
• What’s Important to You?
• Connection and Intimacy: Can It be Created?
• How We Communicate is a Result of How We Feel
• Communication and Relationships: This Blew My Mind
• What’s Creating the Arguing or the Distance in Relationships?
• Five Reasons Why So Many People File for Divorce in January and When is the Best Time to Divorce?
• Is There Still Hope?
• You’re on the Same Team
• Want More Intimacy? Create Some Separation.
• There are Two Sides to Every Story…and they’re both right.
• What It’s Like When We Love Someone but are No Longer in Love.
• How to Make a Marriage Thrive
• The Marriage We Have is a Result of Our Thoughts
• The Danger of a Marriage on Auto-Pilot
• Want to Heal Your Relationship? Find Forgiveness.
• We Do What We Want to Do. Period.
• My First 100 Clients…and the Ripple Effect.
• Accepting an Apology You Never Receive
• The Missing Piece in Your Decision to Leave Your Marriage
• If I Stay Right Here, Nothing Bad Will Happen
• Seeking Answers for My Marriage…
• Seek This Before Deciding to Leave Your Marriage
• Are the Empty Nest Blues Placing Your Marriage at Risk?
• Conventional Wisdom Doesn’t Work in Our Relationships
• The 10 Minute Marriage Fix
• Your Relationship Scorecard
• Are You the Weakest Link in Your Relationship?
• What a Shame.
• Other People Don’t Belong in Your Marriage
• I Wish He Would
• Marriage Vows and Divorce: Is Till Death Do Us Part Still Relevant?
• Your Hurt. Your Pain. Your Anger.
• Enough Distracting from Your Disconnected Marriage. Plus an Invitation for You.
• Thirty Phrases that can Save a Troubled Marriage
• When Temporary Separation from Your Partner is a Good Thing
• I Stayed in the Wrong Marriage for 11 Years
• What I Know about Love from Being in the Wrong Marriage
• Four Reasons Why I Make No Apologies for My Price
• Stop Engaging in “The Crazy.”
• Too Little. Too Late.
• Just Because He Lied or Cheated Doesn’t Make Him a Narcissist
• An Abandoned Home. A Disconnected Marriage.
• The Single Biggest Relationship Mistake that We ALL Make
• My Affair is Over. Now What?
• Keeping the Boardroom Out of the Bedroom: Keeping the Intimacy of Marriage
• Three Reasons Why Asking Your Spouse to Go to Marriage Counseling with You Rarely Works
• Does It Take Two People to Fix a Marriage?
• The Loveless Marriage
• I Have No Reason to Leave
• I Can’t Leave My Marriage and I Can’t Stop My Affair
• When Good Women Cheat
• There is No Relationships Class. No One Teaches Us How to Do This
• The Facebook Affair
• Is My Marriage in Trouble?
• A Cry for Help: When Your Marriage is in Trouble, the Distance Grows Wider and You get Rebellious
• The Magic Pill for My Marriage
• If I’m so Smart, Why Can’t I Fix My Marriage?