How To Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It. Part 2.
admin | March 22, 2010
To illustrate the point, Love tells the story of an afternoon when she and her husband were lying in bed after showering. “I was wondering if he’d initiate sex, when all of a sudden in my mind I crossed over to his side of the bed and got a sense of what it was like to be him, never knowing if he’s going to be accepted or rejected. It was terrifying. I understood then how deeply ashamed that must make him feel,” she recalls. “It was an epiphany that changed my life.” She immediately began emphasizing compassion in her work with clients, and has come to believe — as does Stosny — that it’s even more crucial to the success of a long-term relationship than love.