By: Leslie Cane: As women, we are trained and socialized to feel things deeply and to not be afraid to discuss these feelings. Men are socialized differently. Although times are definitely changing and men today discuss their feelings more deeply than their fathers and grandfathers did, most do not express them as often as their […]
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By: Leslie Cane: When you love your spouse and are invested in your marriage, you just naturally want to spend time with them and are generally happy in their presence. This is just the natural product of a good marriage and it generally comes easily – without any effort. Which is why this sort of […]
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By: Leslie Cane: Many people who reach out to me are trying to find a way to make their marriage work even during the most difficult of times. It can be hard enough to save a struggling marriage when both people are motivated and you are still living together. But it is even harder to […]
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By: Leslie Cane: I occasionally hear from wives who are participating in behavior which they know is hurting their marriage and yet they can not stop. Many of them want to understand why they are acting as they are in the hopes that this knowledge might help them to pin down their motivations and help […]
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By: Leslie Cane: When you are a parent and your spouse threatens you with a divorce, one of the first things you will often do is to consider your children. Many people are fully aware that a separation and divorce is hard on children. Occasionally though, people will tell me of a spouse who insists […]
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By: Leslie Cane: When you are first separated and your husband isn’t all that open to spending time with you, there are certain thoughts that cross your mind. One is almost always that if you ever find yourself in a situation where your husband is receptive to you and wants to spend time with you, […]
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By: Leslie Cane: I do get a lot of correspondence from people who are either just beginning a marital separation or those who are going through one but who feel like things just aren’t going right. People often think that they are doing things all wrong. While so much that happens during a separation is […]
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By: Leslie Cane: If you are a wife who is separated and who wants your husband back, you’re likely watching him very closely for signs that he might be wavering on still wanting the separation. One sign that wives feverishly watch out for is whether or not their husband misses them. Understandably, they think that […]
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By: Leslie Cane: There are certain sets of words that you never want to hear from your spouse when you are married. “I don’t love you anymore” is one. “It’s over” is another. Many people have no idea how they are supposed to react when they hear these words, especially if they don’t agree with […]
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