Can This Marriage Be Saved?

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Variables such as abuse, illness, death, and financial issues all factor into crumbling marriages; “irreconcilable

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Being in an unhealthy marriage does not only mentally drain you but also emotionally. Kingsolver compares an unhealthy marriage to “a slow asphyxiation” and to feeling lonely (67). She uses this comparison to emphasize the fact that sometimes marriage can end up killing you slowly. You feel like you cannot be yourself and more importantly you are not happy. Feeling like you are losing your breath slowly is an unpleasant feeling. You feel desperate for some kind of alleviation. Kingsolver states, “disassembling a marriage in these circumstances is as much fun as amputating your own gangrenous leg” (68). A “gangrenous leg” has no fix, and so does a “nonfunctioning marriage” (Kingsolver 67-68). It is better to cut off something that is no good. It is worse suffering through the pain and letting things get worse. Once you cut off what is making you unhappy you feel

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When people get married they look forward to having a marriage full of love, happiness, companionship, financial stability, intimacy, and having someone who will provide emotional support. But for some people that happiness goes out the door, when you married someone who has an unstable background it will cause problems. This is where couples therapy comes into play, it gives the couple a way to express their concerns about what is going on in their lives. This paper will focus on a video that is providing couples with therapy, and helping them to

Perhaps you may think marriage is the “old fashioned” way. If that is your thought on marriage, then let me also say that marriage is the “right way” as well. It does not matter what has changed over time, marriage will always be the right way within sacred boundaries of God’s Law” (Owens). Many people think that times have changed and that women and men have changed over time. “Wordly so called “love” is synthetic, demanding, selfish and conditional. But God’s love is unconditional. One ought to love their spouse not because of who they are; but rather, because of who you are.” Men and women have changed their views of what love means. People have changed their approach to the commitment of marriage. “Unfortunately, many marriages today are based upon economics, a hasty decision or an unexpected pregnancy. If you are in such a marriage, it is still a legitimate marriage in the eyes of God. Perhaps you married for the wrong reasons, many people do. That is ok, you just make the best of your marriage and don’t let the other people interfere” (Owens). We are all sinners and we all have our own faults. In our society we tend to stand in judgement of others. Marriage requires a man and a woman to support one another in everything. “We all have faults, and commit sins. Leaving one spouse for another will just bring more problems. If you feel that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, then plant more grass on your side of the

The couple is Sergeant Scott Anderson (age 26) and Mrs. Christina Anderson (age 23) (please see Appendix A for a complete genogram of the Andersons, plus extended family), who have been married for four years. They are of modest socioeconomic status (Sgt. Anderson maintains the rank of E-5) and lives in a single-family home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sgt. Anderson returned from a 10-month deployment to Afghanistan approximately six months ago, though both Scott and Christina mention that they’ve been experiencing problems for at least two years. Both Sgt. Anderson and Christina report that they have a history of instability in their relationship, though they both indicate their desires to work on

When saving the relationship is not the best option for the couple divorce may be the better option for the couples to take. In recent years there have been more divorces, while it may be due to the higher acceptance of divorce now compared to years ago, the census has the rate of divorce at 3.2 in 1000 people (CDC, 2014). The hope is that with marital counseling being

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They must not give up and let the devil have his way for the devil is always out to destroy families and marriages but God is always about building and strengthening them. Running from problems within a marriage is not an answer and neither is divorce. “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” (Hebrews 13:4) There are many options a couple has to save their vows, their marriage, there promise to God. Most couples seek marriage counseling either through the pastor whom married them, a pastor, or a licensed therapist. It is also through seeking marriage counseling that a couple can get down to the main issues within their marriage. When your marriage is in trouble you must do all you can to save it and fix it, it is just like when you are sick and need to go to the doctor and see what is wrong. We should do the same with our marriage we need to seek our doctor whom is God who can fix all things there is no problem too big for him The couple may be experiencing issues due to learned behaviors through previous relationships or from a parent from their

When couples realize their relationship is starting to fail, they will try different things such as marriage counseling. That is when the couple will sit down with a therapist and they will try to work their problems out. Sometimes therapy can help the couples work their issues out and get to the root of their problems. Another solution is a vacation or a second honeymoon where they can reconcile or rekindle the relationship that they use to have. Or even as far as moving away to get a new start on life, to try to get away from the old way of how things use to be and try to start a new life together again.

Sometimes divorce may be the only way to solve the various problems a family may have.