Stop Trying to Save Your Marriage
Calm Parenting Podcast
Kirk Martin
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Stop Trying to Save Your Marriage
You should stop trying to fix your marriage. This isn’t your traditional Valentine’s Day message, is it? But it may just change your family. Listen with an open mind and take up Kirk’s challenge for the next month—and see what happens.
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| 2:14.0 | I do not think that you should focus on trying to save your marriage. Stop trying to save your marriage. How's that for a Valentine's Day message? Well, I'm going to explain why. On today's episode, it's a bonus episode of the Calm Parenting Podcast. I'm going to try to make this very short. Welcome. My name's Kirkmart. I'm founder, Celebrate Calm. You can find us to Celebrateate Calm.com. If you need any help, email our son, K-C-A-S-E-Y at Celebrate Calm.com. I do not think that you should focus on trying to save your marriage. And I'm going to tell you why, because I don't think it will work. Because what ends up happening is you try to focus, well, I'm going to save my marriage. It's too nebulous a concept. It's too vague. We're going to save our marriage. It sounds really overwhelming to your spouse. And what it really sounds like is you're going, you're trying to change me. That's what ends up happening. You end up going through and you're like, well, this isn't good. And you try to change your spouse. And it never works to try to change your children. It doesn't try to work to try to change your spouse. Instead, here's what I'd encourage you to do. Instead of trying to save your marriage, instead of working, we're going to work on our marriage. No, let's not do that for the next two weeks the next |
| 3:26.5 | two months instead let's put all of that energy into this I'm going to focus on my self |
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