What are you facing today?

“I feel distant from my spouse.” It’s a complaint I hear regularly from people looking for help for their marriages: “I try to get my husband to open up, but instead he just shuts down.” “My wife just doesn’t seem interested in me anymore. I feel like we’re a million miles apart.” “I don’t know if I love him anymore.”

What we’re talking about here is emotional abandonment. Instead of physically leaving the relationship, your spouse simply checks out emotionally. They stop investing in the marriage, leaving their mate feeling detached and unwanted. To the outside world the situation can still look rosy, but in reality the relationship is dying a slow, quiet death.

Sometimes it’s a slow slide into complacency, and other times it’s a little more sudden. Читать далее →