
3 Keys To
Transform Your Marriage - How to Solve Your Marriage
Problem
Recognizing you have a
marriage problem is
the first step along the road to transforming your marriage,
and for most couples simply acknowledging there is a problem
shatters the marriage myth. According to love stories,
movies, and fairytales we are supposed to live 'happily ever
after'. But what happens when Snow White develops a drinking
problem? What happens when Robin Hood's long working hours
start affecting his marriage to Maid Marian? What happens
when Cinderella says she has 'fallen out of
love'?
We are taught in school how
to do sums, how to read and recognize Shakespeare, and how to
conduct scientific experiments, but what do we really know
about the greatest social experiment of all, namely our ability
to keep the love alive in our marriage? How to solve a marriage
problem before it gets out of hand?
The fact is we know
surprisingly little, and from the moment we say "I do," we are
literally flying by the seat of our pants. We don't get a
manual or a textbook giving us marital advice or telling us how
to get it right, so our marriage becomes an evolving set of
experiments, learning and discovering more and more about
ourselves and each other, and figuring out what works and what
doesn't. Some say if we don't make mistakes we don't really
learn, but what do those mistakes cost us, and is the cost too
high for some couples?
That's why I have 3 ways to
instantly transform your marriage. These are 3 things that you
know will work and will help you get your marriage back on
track. Let's call this your error-free way to redeem yourself
and your marriage in the eyes of your partner and show them
that you are committed to making positive changes in your
marriage.
The first key to transforming
your marriage is to stop looking at your issues on a
case-by-case basis. Couples that try to solve problems in
marriage by going into the small details of every argument are
never really going to deal with the big stuff. I'm talking
about the issues that REALLY matter in your marriage, and the
issues that keep coming up in every disagreement.
Spend too much time at work?
Partner feeling unappreciated? Don't make love as much as you
used to? Either of you feeling unfulfilled by your lifestyle or
the relationship? Is the communication poor in your
relationship? Does your need to always be right override the
feelings of your partner? Spend less time worrying about the
details and more time examining the issues and themes behind
your arguments.
- The issue is your job.
The theme behind this may be balance between work and home
life.
- The issue is you not
doing enough chores. The theme behind may be that you are
being invited into making a greater contribution into
coupledom.
- The issue is your
partner being grumpy with you all the time. The theme is
your partner needing to feel validated in the
relationship
If you have a greater
understanding of what the key themes are behind your marriage
issues you are better able to develop effective solutions that
will really make a difference.
The second key to
transforming your relationship is to examine your beliefs about
marriage. It's okay to not have the fairytale marriage. Even
the best couples don't always get it right. But what makes the
imperfections good or bad is how you choose as a couple to deal
with it. When you disagree about something, do you sit down and
talk about it, or is your first instinct to deny that there is
a problem and hope that it will all go away?
You need to understand that
it is okay to be imperfect. In fact, admitting this to yourself
and your partner can be one of the most liberating actions you
take in transforming your marriage. Admitting your
imperfections exposes a vulnerability that can bring you closer
together as you find ways to get some meaning out of your
issues. Acknowledging that you do make mistakes can open the
door to acknowledging that there is a better way to do things,
and one of the lessons we are called into as a couple is
finding that solution together. Make a list of things that you
have learnt since you got married, and a list of areas that you
as a couple can both improve on. Then try sharing that list
with your partner and ask them to contribute their
thoughts.
The third key to transforming
your relationship is in recognizing the differences between men
and women, and acknowledging the importance of both roles in
the relationship. Just because your partner views something
different to you doesn't make them wrong, and the same goes for
you. There are often several interpretations of the truth, and
the key to marriage success is in recognizing that women and
men have key fundamental differences in the way they view
things. For men, their view may be a much more task-oriented
approach to fixing an issue, where a woman may focus more on
the emotional process as you both navigate your way through
marriage issues. While both approaches are different, with
compromise they can both achieve the same result.
Write down 5 themes or
issues. Then I want you to write down 5 task-oriented ways of
trying to solve the situation. Then list 5 thoughts-based ways
of communicating your way to a solution.
The first step to
transforming your marriage is in transforming YOU. Being
married can be scary enough, but having a marriage problem and
not knowing how to fix them can be paralyzing! All it takes is
the ability to step outside your day-to-day issues and look at
different ways of viewing your marriage. Every marriage problem
invites you into growing and offers you and your partner the
opportunity to learn.
Now it's up to you to take
what you have learned and apply it to YOUR marriage. You too
can have a fairytale marriage!
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