Hi all. I haven't posted here in a while. Kind of lingering in postpartum lackanookie land at the moment, although that is coming to an end. Was perusing a few of the threads for the first time in a couple weeks and found this one.
What worked for me is COMMUNICATION. Specifically, the dialogue technique taught by World-Wide Marriage Encounter. Doing the things in SSM only brought limited success for us (we had an immediate success with it but it quickly trailed off to pre-SSM levels). Mrs GGB has never read SSM, and probably won't. While it hasn't exactly been unending bliss in the GGB household, the entire tone of our relationship has improved (not to mention the LM). We still struggle to keep up with the dialogue, and haven't really been doing it as much as I'd like to (Mrs GGB is still rather uncomfortable with it). Knowing the success we've had with it though, I've been making a big effort to understand her feelings better and to express mine. OK, so it ain't perfect, but everything is considerably better than it was a year ago (LM at least 4x a week up until the baby came vs 1x every 4-6 weeks a year ago).
Michelle, if you write a new edition, you might want to include some of the WWME stuff if you can. I recall a couple others here have had some success with it as well (Scott comes to mind).
GGB, who thinks post-partum depression is the result of lackanookie
