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3 Ways To Avoid Repeat Mistakes After A Breakup [EXPERT]

3 Ways To Avoid Repeat Mistakes After A Breakup [EXPERT]

3 practical tips on learning from the hurt you felt after a break up and using it to your advantage.

Gerald came home after a business trip and announced to Beatrice that he wanted a divorce. The shock of it made Beatrice stop breathing for a few seconds. She froze in a state of complete disbelief. For a moment there was no reaction, until Gerald started talking again. Then a sharp pain and rage swept her up and made her go on the attack. That was the only way she could shut down the unbearable words that rocked the ground under her feet.

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In the case of your marriage, curiosity may just save the cat!

Are You Feeling Bored With Your Marriage? [EXPERT]

Feeling bored? There may be a way to fix that!

Today's post will explore avoiding boredom, which can set in when we have the same old routines, same old conversations, the same old avoidance of hot topics and generally start taking each others presence for granted. Boredom opens the door to several giant killers of relationship. It can lead to affairs, and it can also throw us right over into the opposite ditch of contempt, as we begin to think we know everything about our spouse and stop actually listening to them.

8 Steps To Strengthen Your Marriage After An Affair [EXPERT]
Something that once appeared so vulnerable can turn into something so beautiful!

8 Steps To Strengthen Your Marriage After An Affair [EXPERT]

An affair will hurt a marriage but it also has the potential to make it even stronger!

Few things harm a relationship more than an affair. Whether the affair is emotional, a 'one night stand,' long term or a cyber-affair, the betrayal delivers a life-altering blow. Will the injury to the relationship prove fatal? There are some essential steps a couple must take for there to be any hope that the relationship can survive an affair. If done wisely, there is hope the relationship will come through the ordeal stronger than before. Here are eight steps that can help save your marriage.

How to Save Marriage – Have You Forgotten About This?

How to Save Marriage – Have You Forgotten About This?

Trying to save your marriage will not be successful without this forgortten critical element!

Even if your marriage is in crisis and instead of a happy union it feels more like unpaid, overtime work, you can probably still remember how it used to be. It used to be butterflies in your stomach; it used to be full of romance and laughs. You were once deeply in love. Sometimes it’s hard to understand how your relationship got to where it is now and what exactly happened over time.

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5 Words That Will Save Your Marriage

Sometimes it's the simple things you say that truly matter.

The Huffington Post asked their readers: What five words could save a marriage? From the hilarious to the wise, they answered. Oh boy, did they answer.