Is Your Crisis Hot or Cold?
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Is your marriage crisis marked by heated arguments or cold distance? Hot or cold?
Are they really that different? Or is it all a part of the same process? And how does it affect your attempts to save your marriage?
During back-to-back coaching sessions with two couples, I had a case of each. In the first, both were practically red-faced with anger, talking over each other and refusing to listen.
In the second session, the couple were cold and distant, refusing to engage with each other, routing all discussions through me. Both refused to listen to the other.
The underlying issues were the same. The emotional temperature was different. Each couple had set their “emotional thermostat” to a different level. And neither couple seemed interested in changing the setting.
What is the difference between the heat and the cold? How does it affect your efforts to save your marriage? Is it possible that both the heat and the cold are actually pointing toward the same process? The same path?
We explore the difference between hot and cold crises and what to do to turn it around in this episode of the Save The Marriage Podcast.
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