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Old Sep 24, 2009, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by tryingtobeme View Post
meeting with pastor last nigh. my husband and I both. Why does it feel like I have so much to change. He doesn't have anything to work on. Is our marriage really just my fault.
It sounds to me as if someone's playing "Heads I win, tails you lose" with you. Family therapists figured out long ago that the "identified patient" is almost always just the scapegoat (thanks, lynn09) for other family members who are less aware of their problems and more successful at passing them off to someone else. That your pastor seems to have missed this, suggests that (a.) he has limited skill as a family therapist and (b.) he's doing neither you nor your husband any great favors.

Good luck, tryingtobeme. I suspect your best bet would be to find counseling somewhere where you're granted a level playing field.
Thanks for this!
lynn09, tryingtobeme