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SAVE YOUR MARRIAGE…
THE TOP MARITAL WOES
AND HOW TO FIX THEM
Frommoney issues to the typical in-laws tussles, most marriages suffer from
common types of issues. Yet as
HEALTH
learns, it’s how you, as a couple,
manage these issues that can make or break your marriage.
Dr. Vanessa Bokanowski, Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist at Wellbeing Medical Centre explains the issues
that couples have to overcome to access fulfillment and harmony in their relationship and are as follows:
THE SEVEN ISSUES
The Problem:
Communication
According to Dr. Bokanowski, men
and women are different in the way
they communicate. Women enjoy
normally talking more than men
while men normally don’t talk so
much about their emotions and
prefer to talk about their work or
areas of interest. “Therefore, this
can create conficts, as women will
have the impression that men don’t
listen to them or are not receptive to
their emotions when they talk; it’s
true that men will have the tendency
to withdraw themselves when the
conversation will become too
personal for them,” she says.
Solution:
It is paramount that
each member of the couple finds
other sources of communication
outside the couple and don’t expect
that the couple will fulfill all of their
communication needs.
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