This saved our marriage

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jennyhas2

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I just wanted to give a word of encouragement to any one else who is feeling like giving up on their marriage. My husband I were pretty much both done with our marriage of over 10 years. Our family got us a marital course called magicalmarriage101 that we took together online and it was honestly life-changing. Both our parents are divorced so completing the class really boosted our confidence that we won’t end up like them. Literally all we did was argue before about anything everything and nothing! We communicate SO much different now and learned how to actually talk through our problems instead of arguing. That class taught me so much about who I am and why I act the way I do and really helped my partner to learn to open up and not hold everything inside. It totally saved our marriage and really was the best gift we ever got! I think its intended for people to take before they get married but we just adapted it to our situation and it worked miracles for us! I don't know if it will help other people but I really believe in marriage and didn't want to quit but felt I had no other choice. I'm so grateful we gave it one last shot before throwing in the towel!
 

blue_ladybug

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Welcome to CC. This forum is ONLY for introducing yourself. Your OP is more appropriate for the Family forum, so I'll ask a mod to move it there for you. :)
 

tourist

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Glad that it all worked out for you. Welcome to CC.
 
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jennyhas2

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Oh thank you!!
 

Tommy379

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Thats all fine and good if both are willing to do it.
 
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LanceA

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I just wanted to give a word of encouragement to any one else who is feeling like giving up on their marriage. My husband I were pretty much both done with our marriage of over 10 years. Our family got us a marital course called magicalmarriage101 that we took together online and it was honestly life-changing. Both our parents are divorced so completing the class really boosted our confidence that we won’t end up like them. Literally all we did was argue before about anything everything and nothing! We communicate SO much different now and learned how to actually talk through our problems instead of arguing. That class taught me so much about who I am and why I act the way I do and really helped my partner to learn to open up and not hold everything inside. It totally saved our marriage and really was the best gift we ever got! I think its intended for people to take before they get married but we just adapted it to our situation and it worked miracles for us! I don't know if it will help other people but I really believe in marriage and didn't want to quit but felt I had no other choice. I'm so grateful we gave it one last shot before throwing in the towel!
Praise God on Him saving your marriage. God saved my marriage as well. We didn't do your course but God uses many things to get through to us :)
 
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jennyhas2

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Thats all fine and good if both are willing to do it.
That's true lol
In our cases NEITHER of us wanted to do it. Our family bought it for us because they didn't want us to go through all they did being divorced families. Both of us were done with the marriage--but we also both grew up going through our parents divorce and deep down I guess neither of us wanted to put our own 3 kids that. The first few sessions my heart was totally not into it but I guess the course is called magicalmarriage101 for a reason. It really drew me in and taught me so much about myself. At least initially I truly believed all of our problems were HIS fault! The class has a pretty amazing way of helping you see what you are adding to the equation and what you, not your spouse, can do to change the crazy (exhausting) cycle of arguing every day. I think more than anything when we started the class I was just TIRED. I just wanted the fighting to stop. We fought about everything under the sun and our kids would just look back and forth at us as we were acting so childish. I just didn't know how to stop it and I guess he didn't either. The class made me fall back in love with a man I had grown to hate. I was so focused on how he wasn't meeting any of my needs it had made me blind to the fact I had quit meeting his too.