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October 2023

Take These 3 Steps To Save Your Marriage
150 150 Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D.

You want to save your marriage (or you wouldn’t be here, right??). But you may not know what to do. Most people don’t.

I mean, let’s face it:  most people don’t do a lot to prepare to be married.  Maybe a little pre-marital counseling.  Perhaps a weekend event.  Or maybe you read a book.  But that doesn’t really cut it, does it?  Most people find that out when they hit a problem.

They often discover that they didn’t really understand how to have a good marriage, much less how to fix a hurting marriage.  But we can change that!

In this episode of the Save The Marriage Podcast, I tell you 3 steps you can take, with or without your spouse’s involvement, that can start the process to saving and restoring your marriage.

No, they aren’t hard, nor complicated.  They are, however, important.  So listen in and take action.

Listen below.

 

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Why Communication Isn’t The Issue
Why Connection Matters
How Therapy Can Cause MORE Problems
Why You Need A Plan
Here is the Save The Marriage System

Why Your Spouse Can’t See A Way Forward
150 150 Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D.

What do you do when your spouse has limiting beliefs -- can't see the possibilities of things changing? When they believe that things can't get better. Therefore, they aren't willing to try. What do you to then?We all have limiting beliefs.  You… me… and your spouse!  I always work to change my limiting beliefs.  You are probably doing the same.  But you can’t just change your spouse’s limiting beliefs!

What is a limiting belief?  It is a mostly-FALSE belief.  But more than that, it is one that keeps you stuck… unable to see bigger possibilities.  Potentials for change.

Mostly, limiting beliefs are about what CAN’T happen, what is NOT possible.

Even when there are possibilities.

Even when things CAN change.

If someone can’t see a way to move forward, they are unlikely to be willing to try to move forward.  So, they stay stuck.  And if it is a spouse who can’t see forward on saving your marriage, it can keep YOU stuck, too!

In this episode of the Save The Marriage Podcast, I discuss what to do when your spouse’s belief is “if a marriage was meant to be, it would be easy.”  I also address several other false/limiting beliefs… and what to do about them.

Listen in below.

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Survival Series
What Happy Couples Know
Showing Up
Save The Marriage System

 

The Road to Divorce: 8 Stops
150 150 Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D.

Just to be clear, people don’t simply end up divorced.  They don’t go from a loving, connected marriage to a painful, hurting divorce.  There are some stops along the way.

As people progress along the path to divorce, they have some options along the way, to either take the off-ramp or jump back on the road.  And the further along the road they go, the harder it is to turn around, to turn back toward the marriage.

But what if I were to tell you that even at the last stop, things can still turn around?  You can still turn things around.

More than that, what if I told you about those 8 stops along the way?  Because most people aren’t even aware that they have blown through the first one, two, or even three, without even realizing it!

In this episode of the Save The Marriage Podcast, I tell you about each stop… and the options of the off-ramp.  Tune in to hear and to find where you are.

Listen below.

RELATED RESOURCES:
7 Stages of Disconnection
The Pause Button Marriage
Why Connection Matters
Grab the Save The Marriage System