Tuesday, August 30, 2011

How to keep love strong when life gets a little crazy

Wedding vows ask you if you will hang in there when it gets tough.
 
Everyone says yes.
 
Of course no one on their wedding day imagines what's coming.
 
Half the ones at the altar this very day will be divorced in 10 years.
 
And 80% of the other half will be moderately to supremely unhappy.
 
And half of the rest of them are either oblivious, addicted or don't care.
 
And only about 1/10th of the remaining number are happy.
 
Totally, totally unnecessary when all everyone needs is the Science of Happy Marriage.
 
Divorce is bad but marital unhappiness is no picnic either.
 
And don't think your kids think you're happy when you're not.
 
"We can't divorce, we can't do that to the kids."
 
But is it OK to inflict a lifetime of your marital unhappiness on them?
 
What kind of model is that?
 
"But kids, we stayed together for your sake."
 
"Thanks a lot mom, that really gave me a wonderful vision of marriage and adulthood."
 
Now all that is kind of harsh, I know, but here's the solution.
 
Give yourself a REAL chance to stay together and be happy.
 
It isn't hard, but you have to change your direction.
 
Stop.
 
Take a turn.
 
Go a new way.
 
Go the way thousands of others are going... toward happy marriage.
 
There is a science of happy marriage and it is an exact science.
 
Here are the details
 
 
To your great relationship future,
 
Dr. Max
 
 
 
 

Posted via email from Marriage Counseling, Save Your Marriage, Stop Your Divorce

Monday, August 29, 2011

Have to stand on your head to be appreciated?

Sometimes it seems like your partner hardly notices you.
 
After all you've done for him.
 
After the ways you've been there for him, done things for him.
 
The ways you've gone out of your way to be available.
 
The way you always think of the little things that make life run smoothly.
 
The tasks and chores you do that no one notices.
 
The birthdays and anniversaries and other holidays only you seem to remember.
 
The connections with relatives you maintain.
 
The family you hold together with love and caring.
 
Couldn't he just occasionally show you some true appreciation?
 
You don't ask much, just a little consideration now and then.
 
When he does show warmth, it always turns to sex.
 
Couldn't he just have a nice warm conversation, you hold each other?
 
Is he deaf, dumb and blind when it comes to relationship?
 
If these are the ways you feel, you are not alone.
 
However, all of the ways you've ever thought of to "make things different" will fail.
 
It's not your fault.
 
But you are on the wrong path.
 
And no one else will set you on the right one.
 
All of the things MOST people - incuding counselors, pastors and advice givers - have ever thought of will fail.
 
It's not their fault either.
 
They haven't heard this presentation yet.
 
 
Once they do they'll know it's time for a course correction.
 
You'll get it.
 
Things can be brand new in your marriage.
 
Not doing the things you've always done and been taught to do, but doing things a new way.
 
The Science of Happy Marriage Way.
 
To your great relationship future,
 
Dr. Max
 
P.S. No one else is talking about this yet.  Why not?  They don't know about it.
Soon everyone will, but you heard it here first.
 
 

Posted via email from Marriage Counseling, Save Your Marriage, Stop Your Divorce