| When your marriage is falling apart nothing in your | | | | work on the marriage even if you aren't living together. |
| world feels right. If your spouse has approached you | | | | Don't point fingers when your marriage is falling apart. |
| with their desire to either separate or divorce it's | | | | Placing all the blame on your spouse will only cause |
| difficult to think about anything but that. Even though | | | | them to feel hurt and resentful. In almost every case, |
| most marriages go through rough patches from | | | | marriages fall apart because of the actions of both |
| time-to-time some hit a point where one partner feels | | | | partners. If you can recognize what you did wrong you |
| the only solution is to end the relationship. If you are in | | | | need to apologize to your spouse. Also listen to them if |
| this position and a divorce isn't what you want, there | | | | they want to right whatever wrongs they have done. |
| are things you can do to help mend your marriage. | | | | An important step in saving a marriage is forgiving your |
| It's incredibly important, when your marriage is falling | | | | partner and leaving the past in the past. Although this |
| apart, that you respect the wishes of your partner. If | | | | isn't always easy, it's necessary if you want to rebuild |
| they ask you for a separation, don't automatically | | | | your relationship. |
| refuse to even consider it. If you do this it makes them | | | | Keeping secrets is never a good thing in a serious |
| feel trapped and only adds to their belief that they are | | | | relationship and this is especially true when your |
| doing the right thing by leaving you. Instead agree to | | | | marriage is falling apart. If there are issues that you |
| discuss the possibility and if it turns out that they are | | | | feel your spouse should know about, now is the time |
| determined to separate, agree to it. It seems that | | | | to share. If you want to save your marriage you have |
| agreeing to time apart is counterproductive to saving | | | | to do so with a clean slate. This means both you and |
| your marriage, but it can be instrumental in helping | | | | your spouse must share everything and keep on |
| change your spouse's mind. Sometimes some distance | | | | sharing everything if you hope to make your marriage |
| is what is needed to remind someone of how much | | | | stronger and save it from a divorce. |
| they truly adore their spouse. Let them go. You can still | | | | |