What Marriage Problems?

Take a look at your marriage problems from a totally different perspective. Just step outside the box, look at your marriage as if you were an outsider looking in and you might just find that your life isn’t so bad as you think.

As a first step just sit down and make a list of your marriage problems as you see them, write them down so you can see them in black and white then:

·        Carefully read through the list, read every point twice, and just consider how much of a problem your marital issues would appear to a totally unrelated third party.

·        Next, highlight any marriage problems that you believe an outsider would consider to be a real relationship issue.

·        Now, look at your highlighted marriage problems more closely, take a long hard look and then

·        Immediately focus on people that are far worse off than yourself, people who don’t have the luxury of thinking about marriage problems, such as the survivors of natural disasters, those who have lost a loved one, people who are having to deal with terminal illness or families who can think of nothing else but how they survive each day.

Now it’s time to be totally honest with yourself, on the scale of one to ten how important do you really think your marriage problems are? In the great scheme of things is your life so bad?

So now what do you want to do? Are you ready to save your marriage? If not repeat the exercise again.

Taking this approach won’t fix your marriage problems but it will help to tackle your marital issues with a more positive frame of mind and you’ll be amazed at what the power of positive thought can do!