How to Save Your Marriage for Free
These holes may even sometimes seem like they are deep to crawl out of.
You will have to work hard to salvage your marriage during these times.
When a disease in a patient, modern medicine chooses to treat the symptoms of the illness.
While doctors try to identify the cause, and keep future occurrences from happening.
Marriage needs to be treated both ways, identify the cause and treat the symptoms as well.
You will have to repair the damage done to your marriage and find the cause so it does not happen again.
When marital problems are caused by one or both spouses, you must immediately find a way to alter what caused it.
The problem needs to be tackled jointly if it is caused by indifference or actions from one or both spouses.
Organization is important when a trying to fix problems in your marriage.
Write down all your problems, who was responsible, and the steps needed to positively fix the problem.
Your spouse needs to write down his or her own list as well.
Then you should both sit down and calmly talk about each list.
Together, decide who is going to do what to salvage the relationship, this can only be done if your spouse wishes to participate in saving the marriage.
This helps keep things from becoming too emotional.
Once a resolution or plan has been mutually decided upon, begin working on it at once.
You need to talk about the progress that is made every day.
If your spouse is uncooperative or thinks she or he has been treated wrong, then you will have to try a different approach to save the marriage.
You can give a written list of what you will do to improve the marriage to your spouse.
When it is proven that you are genuinely trying to improve things, you can then ask your spouse to write down their own list.
You also need to write a list down that shows why your marriage is worth saving.
Make a pro and con list, and discuss it with your spouse, if he or she is cooperative.
If your spouse still remains uncooperative, third party help from someone such as a preacher or friend may sway your spouse.
You can provide your pro and con list to the third party to review with your spouse.
Change is always harder than keeping things the same.
Change is scary and most people are resistant to it.
Their familiar relationships, surroundings, and activities are their comfort zone.
Your spouse will be more likely to work with you on salvaging your marriage once he or she sees how willing you are.
If either of you have made bad mistakes, remind your spouse that everyone makes mistakes and deserves a second chance.