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Attempts to Repair the Marriage

Submitted by saturnino
Tue, 2 Oct 2007

This doesn't mean there's nothing you can do if your relationship has been overrun by conflict. But it does mean that the typical conflict-resolution advice won't help. Instead, you need to understand the bottom-line difference that is causing the conflict between you and to learn how to live with it by honoring and respecting each other. Only then will you be able to build shared meaning and a sense of purpose into your marriage.
Repair attempts save marriages not just because they decrease emotional tension between spouses, but because by lowering the stress level they also prevent your heart from racing and making you feel flooded. When the four horsemen rule a couple's communication, repair attempts often don't even get noticed.
Especially when you're feeling flooded, you're not able to hear a verbal white flag.
In unhappy marriages a feedback loop develops between the four horsemen and the failure of repair attempts. The more contemptuous and defensive the couple is with each other, the more flooding occurs, and the harder it is to hear and respond to a repair.
And since the repair is not heard, the contempt and defensiveness just get heightened, making flooding more pronounced, which makes it more difficult to hear the next repair attempt, until finally one partner .withdraws
Repair attempts are the secret weapon of emotionally intelligent couples, even though many of these couples aren't aware that they are doing something so powerful. When a couple have a strong friendship, they naturally become experts at sending each other repair attempts and at correctly reading those sent their way But couples are in negative override, even a repair statement as blunt as "Hey, I'm sorry" will have a low success rate.
The success or failure of a couple's repair attempts is one of the primary factors in whether their marriage flourishes or flounders.
And again, what determines the success of their repair attempts is the strength of their marital friendship.
your marital friendship isn't as basic as just being "nice." Even if you feel that your friendship is already quite solid, you may be surprised to find there is room to strengthen it all the more.
This doesn't mean there's nothing you can do if your relationship has been overrun by conflict. But it does mean that the typical conflict-resolution advice won't help. Instead, you need to understand the bottom-line difference that is causing the conflict between you--and to learn how to live with it by honoring and respecting each other. Only then will you be able to build shared meaning and a sense of purpose into your marriage.
It used to be that couples could achieve this goal only through their own insight, instinct, or blessed luck.
Just because your marriage follows this pattern, it's not a given that a divorce is in the offing. That in turn leads you to feel lonely Without help, the couple will end up divorced or living in a dead marriage, in which they maintain separate, parallel lives in the same home. They may go through the motions of togetherness--attending their children's plays, hosting dinner parties, taking family vacations. But emotionally they no longer feel connected to each other.

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