Counseling or Divorce

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I don't know about other people, but I absolutely feel so surprised when a book is able to put into concise sentences the way that I have felt for years, but was unable to describe so succinctly.

I wasn't going to read this book when I first heard about it. I had no desire to read one more book that would tell me what I needed to do differently in order to make our M better.

A good friend encouraged me to read it anyway. Ty

Terrance Real, "How Can I Get Through to You"

....Maggie had spent most of her life under Hera's curse. Like many wives of her generation, she had reached out longingly toward her husband's back, while he huddled over the pool of his ambition. "somewhere in the early years of our marriage," Maggie says, "I felt that Steve made a unilateral, irreversible decision that his career came first, over and above the family, and over and above his relationship to me. My career didn't even blip on his screen. He was always a good father to the children, when he was with us. But there just wasn't enough of him to go around. Not just physically, but energy-wise, emotionally. I tried to fight it. I really tried. But it just seemed to make things worse."

As Steve experienced it, mostly what maggie meant by "trying" was complaint. "I don't think I was aware of it," he confesses, "but it starts to feel easier to stay at work than to come home when you know you're going to be bitched at."

amazing......