If you want to experience more joy and happiness in your marriage, then you will have to take some time to nurture your relationship. It’s plain and simple as that. If you want a happy marriage, you have to work for it.
The National Healthy Marriage Institute says:
“..relationships are like plants. You can only neglect them for so long before they begin to die. The longer you neglect plants and relationships, the more time and effort it takes to revive them.”
In the work that we do for this site and our movies, we hear people complaining about their marriages all of the time. And immediately after their complaint, they provide us with various excuses as to why they have not or will not do anything to change their current circumstances. And most of those problems (excuses) can be easily resolved.
See our list below of 10 weak excuses why people don’t get help for their marriages, then let us know if we’ve missed any!.
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Love it! Especially counseling didn’t work. It won’t if you don’t have an open mind and the willingness to admit you may play a part in the behaviors.
Some people wont or dont get help in marriage simply because they dont want other people to know what they may be going through…May it be shame or pain its not pretty and no-one wants to admit to it..period
I just LOVED this article. No excuses . . . not if you actually WANT to save or improve your marriage! I will be sending this to a friend of mine who has offered up at least 6 of the excuses to me as to why SHE won’t pursue counseling. Thanks so much for this real approach to the issue!