Marriage Reconnects
Some couples turn to marriage counseling because they love each other but are finding it impossible to live with one another. The basic emotion is still there, under the surface, just clouded by resentment and anger. For others, however, marriage counseling is approached out of a sense of duty. Some, like Seth, felt nothing even remotely like love in his marriage anymore, but went to marriage counseling because he promised himself he would give it every chance he could before calling it quits.
I actually was at a stage where my wife and I didn’t like each other at all. I definitely didn’t like her. We were just going through the motions.
We were on the verge of ending it, and I was happy with that. But I decided to give it one more shot, not so much for my sake as for the sake of doing the right thing. So I decided to let go of my resentment of her and stopped “keeping score.”
The hardest thing for me at that stage was to be loving toward her, because I hated her. But I knew all she really wanted was my love. So I decided to write her a love song.
I sang it to her, and she melted. We built things from there.
We’ve had other incidents that have almost broken our marriage, and continue to have them, but we’re still pulling through.
Seth’s story is much more common than you may think. After so much time of anger and bitterness building up, it isn’t any wonder that there is no love left to feel. This doesn’t mean, however, that love can’t be found again. Marriage counseling can help you find ways to reconnect again.
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