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Old Aug 11, 2014, 12:35 PM
MissBelle00 MissBelle00 is offline
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Originally Posted by healingme4me View Post
And that's a real possibility. You'd know better, than us.

There's marriage builders, that has oodles of articles, to be read. There's talk of I v. You statements there, if I recall. 12 steps also have online material and books, to work through between meetings and therapy. Adult child work can be found through al anon. A dysfunctional home of origin, can impact us. If there's no co dep local, adult child works.
Relationships are 50/50. His statement of what he's working on, in therapy, glimmers light, imo.
Your reactions, are as crucial as his communication.
Anger work throughs, John Lee's 'Facing the Fire' hits home. Anger inside, can affect life, much as aggressive outwards acting anger, good to work through tapping into resentment.
There's much, if both parties focus on themselves, before ripping apart their love lives.
Time will tell. And working now, on you, if the relationship survives or not, you'll be well and less likely to repeat patterns.
Takes time, be patient.


Thank you.

This made me feel better.

For an update, we had one more rocky patch after I posted this thread, but he came home at night and we agreed to just chill for a bit and feel calm and happy before attempting to talk.

We both agreed that we have things to work on and we need to be humble and accepting of the other's opinions.
Yesterday we had a nice talk, we didn't get angry at each other and I felt like we could understand each other a bit better.

I think he gets more tired of talks than I do, and he feels exhausted easier than I do.

You're all right, this is something that will take a while.

But I don't want to give up, and I want to have hope.

Things feel better today than they did before.