Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
By: Bode Akinola
In order to save your marriage, these harmful behaviors must stop.
Emotionally and/or Physically Abusing Your Spouse
This should be a no-brainer, but you may think your control over your spouse’s daily life or your negative responses to your spouse is okay.
Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
1. Breaking Your Promises and Being an Undependable Spouse
Who wants to live with someone who can’t be depended on? The more promises you break, the more you say you will do something and then don’t, the more you are late or not where you say you will be, the more your spouse will lose trust in you.
Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
2. Being Jealous Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
One of the sure ways to drive your spouse away and to destroy your marriage is to show irrational jealousy or to spy on your spouse. If you can’t admit to your jealous behavior or change your behavior, seek counseling. Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
3. Inability or Not Wanting to Forgive
Resentment over past hurts or betrayals will slowly eat away at your spouse’s love for you and doom your marriage. Not forgiving your spouse also harms your own health. Forgiving doesn’t mean you forget or that you condone hurtful behavior.
Avoid These 8 Common Harmful Behaviors part1
4. Putting Romance on the Back Burner
Although your lifestyle situation changes throughout the years, your need for love and affection does not lessen. Talk about your expectations about affection, sex, and romance. Telling yourself that “someday” you will have the time to be romantic will hurt your marriage.
