Can This Marriage Be Saved? This column was introduced in Ladies Home Journal Magazine over 50 years ago. It’s still considered the most popular and most enduring women’s magazine feature in the world. Is it really a surprise when you think about the conversations you’re having with friends or the increase in divorces after we hit the 15-year marriage mark.
All relationships have their ups and downs, especially marriages where you are intertwined in everything from living arrangements to parenting to finances. Questioning happiness along the way isn’t uncommon, but what happens when the weeks of questioning turns into months and then years?
In this episode, we’re going to discuss the stages of marriage and explore the questions you can dig in and ask yourself to identify what’s really going on in your marriage and understand, ‘Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Start off by asking these two questions:
Ways to start fixing it:
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