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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 159987" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">I've read The Four Agreement a few times. There's always a new message whenever I pick it up again, depending on what's going on in our lives.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Witz, in many ways your H sounds so much like mine. My H is going to counseling...he is only going because if he doesn't he knows that it's just a matter of time before I pack up my stuff and split. And it may come to that. Like your H, he will 'go along' with this and eventually, things will fall back into the old groove. I feel that if I'm not continuously 'on top of it' everyday, he will be contentment in skipping his appts or wrongly intepreting what his counselor is saying to him & slipping back into his own little shabby routine. We have severe communication issues.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">I've been in and out of counseling for many years for various reasons. It's been great, sad, depressing, difficult, enlightening & humbling, and I still have stuff to work on. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">H struggles to come to terms with his issues. His counselor is currently helping H develop self confidence. I am not so sure that would be my first target of choice, but it's HIS therapy, not mine. H has cancelled/postponed at least 5 appts that I know of. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">Couples counseling was helpful at first, but when things get too stressful, we fall apart again.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: navy">I hope that communication and other things with your H grow and change for the better. But in the meantime, be sure to keep your focus on what you'd like to see for yourself and H in the future. Life is too short.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 159987, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]I've read The Four Agreement a few times. There's always a new message whenever I pick it up again, depending on what's going on in our lives.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Witz, in many ways your H sounds so much like mine. My H is going to counseling...he is only going because if he doesn't he knows that it's just a matter of time before I pack up my stuff and split. And it may come to that. Like your H, he will 'go along' with this and eventually, things will fall back into the old groove. I feel that if I'm not continuously 'on top of it' everyday, he will be contentment in skipping his appts or wrongly intepreting what his counselor is saying to him & slipping back into his own little shabby routine. We have severe communication issues.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]I've been in and out of counseling for many years for various reasons. It's been great, sad, depressing, difficult, enlightening & humbling, and I still have stuff to work on. [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]H struggles to come to terms with his issues. His counselor is currently helping H develop self confidence. I am not so sure that would be my first target of choice, but it's HIS therapy, not mine. H has cancelled/postponed at least 5 appts that I know of. [/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]Couples counseling was helpful at first, but when things get too stressful, we fall apart again.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=navy]I hope that communication and other things with your H grow and change for the better. But in the meantime, be sure to keep your focus on what you'd like to see for yourself and H in the future. Life is too short.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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