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- Open and Honest Communication. Reviving the skill of honest and open communication can be the key to saving a marriage that is on the verge of collapse.
- Seek Professional Help. Seeking expert assistance might be a game-changer if the turmoil in your marriage seems unbreakable. The first step in the process is realizing that asking for help is a show of strength rather than weakness.
- Make a Commitment to Change. It takes two sincere commitments to accept change for a marriage to be saved. First, schedule some time for a sincere discussion about your shared goals of working toward a better relationship.
- Prioritize Quality Time and Emotional Connection. During the hectic pace of life, spending quality time with your partner may seem like a distant memory.
This book offers such a protocol, called discernment counseling, which was developed 20 years ago as an informal clinical tool and then refined during the last 7 years into a structured protocol. Although we address theory and relevant research in this book, it is pri-marily a clinical guide to the strategies and craft of discernment counseling.
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Page presents a series of “experiments” one person can use, based on 8 specific principles: (1) Act on your own. (2) Do the opposite of what you have been doing. (3) Reframe a power struggle. (4) Enlist your partner’s help. (5) Express empathy for your partner’s position. (6) Gracefully accept what you can’t change.
Discernment counseling generally ends with a decision to divorce or a decision to engage in six months of couples therapy. Chapters cover special topics such as affairs and when one spouse has “fallen out of love” with the other. Discernment counseling features individual conversations with the leaning-in and leaning-out spouse, along with ...
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Mar 14, 2017 · Discernment Counseling for Couples on the Brink of Divorce. Steve and Rebecca have been together for seven years, married for four, and have one toddler. Since the birth of their child, arguments ...
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