#158 - What to Do When Your Partner Refuses Marriage Counseling
Love, Happiness and Success with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
4.6 • 849 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Saving a Relationship, Single-Handedly
It can feel really discouraging when you are eager to work on your relationship, and your partner is less than enthused about going to marriage counseling or relationship coaching. But know this: Every couple who gets to marriage counseling does so because one of the partners initiates it. In your relationship, that person might need to be you. And that is okay.
This episode will give you insight into what might be going on inside your partner when they say things like:
- "Things aren't that bad"
- "Marriage counseling is too expensive"
- "We don't need to tell a stranger about our problems"
- "I absolutely refuse to go to marriage counseling"
I'm sharing some tips and ideas that can help you you ease their concerns. I hope this advice helps you help YOUR partner take the first step forward with you, and start growing back together again.
All the best,
Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby
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| 0:00.0 | This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Mops of my days go all the messy waves my mind is a stranger with direction. Turn and turn, turn, turn around again, back and forth. |
| 0:43.3 | You can't see me right now, but I'm swaying as I'm listening to Sitae with On the Wings. |
| 0:51.3 | Kind of a melancholy song, but a good one and I thought it was appropriate for our |
| 0:56.3 | subject today. Today we're going to be talking about what to do if your partner will not go |
| 1:02.5 | to counseling with you. This is such a frustration for a lot of people. You're feeling motivated |
| 1:08.5 | to make changes in your relationship. You're ready for it. |
| 1:12.3 | And you're certain someone will not go. And, you know, I wanted to talk about just this |
| 1:19.7 | phenomenon and give you some tips on how to handle it. So that's what we're doing today on the |
| 1:24.4 | love, happiness, and success podcast. First, a couple of quick announcements. |
| 1:29.8 | Thanks so much, everybody, for sending me all of your questions. I love hearing from my listeners, |
| 1:34.7 | and I'm just so thrilled when you get in touch with me, because I do make these podcasts to be |
| 1:39.5 | helpful to you and all my listeners, and knowing what it is it's going on with you and what kinds of |
| 1:45.5 | things you're interested in hearing about really helps me make it relevant. So thank you. |
| 1:50.5 | If you have questions, get in touch with me. The easiest way is through my website. Go to |
| 1:55.0 | www.growingself.com and you'll see email boxes all over the place. You can also get in touch with me on |
| 2:03.1 | Facebook. Facebook.com forward slash Dr. Lisa Bobby. And I'm also on Twitter at Dr. Lisa Bobby. So |
| 2:11.5 | get in touch and let me know what's going on in your world these days. And so before we jump in, |
| 2:17.1 | I'm going to tell you a little bit about what's going on in my world these days. And so before we jump in, I'm going to tell you a little bit |
| 2:18.5 | about what's going on in my world these days. We're sharing. Things are going well around here. |
| 2:25.1 | I do want to let you guys know that our next Lifetime of Love class is already filling up for |
| 2:31.4 | April. I think that we have one or two spots left in this class. And |
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