By: Leslie Cane: When you are dealing with a martial separation and it is taking longer than you had hoped, you really only have two choices. You can wait and can continue to live with uncertainty for a while. Or you can decide that you are tired of waiting and can move toward making the […]
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By: Leslie Cane: Many wives are equally as hurt by their husband’s behaviors and actions during the separation as they are by the separation itself. Many have never seen their husband act so distant and cold before. And they’re left wondering how he is able to just turn the love on and off – like […]
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By: Leslie Cane: Some husbands who ask you for a separation figure the less you know, the better. These husbands will purposely be vague with their information. Sometimes, they do this because they are trying to keep from hurting you. Sometimes, they truly aren’t clear on their plans or on their reasoning. So they can […]
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By: Leslie Cane: It’s a tricky situation when both parties in a marriage know that if the situation were different, one spouse would leave. In today’s economy, money often keeps people together. For many couples, supporting two households is simply too difficult right now. But that doesn’t keep an unhappy spouse from constantly reminding the […]
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By: Leslie Cane: It’s frustrating when your extended family has any negative effect on your marriage. After all, your relationship really is about two people – and only two – you and your husband. This relationship should not involve anyone else. That’s the ideal anyway. But this ideal doesn’t always happen. The people who love […]
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By: Leslie Cane: In a good marriage, we would do just about anything for our spouse. A marriage is a relationship where, ideally, you would go to war for your spouse if you had to. People who are happily married generally have the outlook that they and their spouse are a pack of two and […]
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By: Leslie Cane: I rarely get correspondence from wives telling me that their husband is too sweet, too sensitive, or too concerned about their feelings. Sure, I get the occasional complaint that a husband is too involved in the wife’s life, but this is rare. More often, I hear from wives who complain that their […]
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By: Leslie Cane: A lot of the correspondence that I get has to do with communication during a separation. Much of the time, one spouse thinks that the communication is too much and another thinks that it is not enough. Or one spouse does not like the format of the communication, while the other thinks […]
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By: Leslie Cane: It’s not uncommon for two spouses to discuss members of their extended family when they are alone together. They say these things in confidence, knowing that it is only between the two of them. These kinds of “us against them” conversations can be one of the things that helps keep a couple […]
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By: Leslie Cane: When we are newlyweds, many of us romanticize becoming parents. We think that a child is going to be proof of our love for our spouse and so we naturally assume that being parents is going to bring us much closer together. We assume that new parenthood is going to be one […]
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