Dr. Buckingham, I came across one of your posts and thought you might be able to give me sound advice. I've scoured the Internet for situations similar to mine but none quite reflect what my boyfriend and I are dealing with right now. My boyfriend and I are high school sweethearts. We broke up in college, reconnected three years ago and now have a 23-month-old daughter … [Read more...]
3 Actions You Must Take Before Giving Up on Your Marriage
Most of the articles I write on the topic of marriage deal with cultivation, nurturing, and protection of the relationship. Indeed, especially with marriage, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure. Generally, good maintenance of your relationship is going to produce a healthy relationship with long lasting results. Unfortunately, some relationships are beyond the … [Read more...]
When You Marry for Better, But it’s Always Worse
It seems lately many of the themes of my interactions with couples and individuals in relationships has been about reconciliation. It’s challenging to decide when is enough simply enough. It’s equally challenging to make the conscious decision you are going to fight for your marriage, no matter what. The real question is always how you decide what is important enough to you … [Read more...]