How Can i Save my Marriage

February 7, 2009 by Uttoran Sen  
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In a love marriage, you fall in love, get married, raise children, everything is great and honky dory for a while. Then all hell breaks loose, you and your spouse suddenly realize that you do not want to see each other anymore, let alone talk with each other. The sequence of events is similar except that in this situation, you get married and then fall in love. Everything else is the same. You exchange sacred vows at the wedding altar or pyre and swear in front of the almighty that you will never ever give up on each other and that the marriage will last a lifetime. Then what happens in the middle that you start thinking on lines like “How can I save my marriage”?

Marriage is a partnership; a partnership that is not signed on paper with ink. It is a lifelong partnership, a commitment written in heart with love. When you realize that marriage is also give and take, half your marital problems are solved. For starters, analyze the situation and accept the truth. Find ways to mend fences and do not blame the other side. Instead understand that it takes two to break a relationship and you are to be blamed for this unpleasant situation as much as your partner. Once this understanding is arrived at, then begin a process of reconciliation. Sort out differences by way of communicating in a way that also reasons to the other side’s point of thinking.

After that is done, it is quite easy to arrive at a point where the differences can be set aside and ways to salvage the relationship can be looked at. Marriage is based on trust and compromise as much as the other important factors that nurture a relationship like love and understanding. The best answer to the question “How can I save my marriage”? is in the following words; acceptance, communication and compromise. If the above formula doesn’t work in saving your marriage, then remember what a wise man once said “You are lucky if you can save your marriage but you are luckier if you can’t”.

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4 Responses to “How Can i Save my Marriage”
  1. Actually, it IS a partnership you sign to on paper. It’s just that the bigger promise are the vows we take. We promise to make it the most important relationship in our lives, then we neglect it! Good reminder!

    Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D.
    author of Save The Marriage

  2. Alex Hewitt says:

    Nice post and good reminder about Marriage is a lifelong partnership, a commitment written in heart with love. We all suffer from misperceptions, the real root of marital problems. Being open to hearing how your spouse sees the world is crucial to deal with marital problems.

  3. the best way to save your marriage is to have good communication and understanding with each other.*`.

  4. Bailey Singh says:

    eveyone should not always resort to divorce when there are misunderstandings. everyone should always save their marriage.*-,

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