When Is It Time for Divorce?
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During today’s conversation, we discuss the commonly asked question of how to tell that it’s time to get a divorce. On the flip side, we look at how to know it’s time to save your marriage. Joining us to explore these questions are licensed therapists and board-certified coaches, Lori Kret and Jeff Cole.
Lori and Jeff founded the Aspen Relationship Institute, along with the podcast Functional Love. The pair supports clients through a unique couple-to-couple coaching format. Join us today to hear the number one problem couples face, what leads married couples to begin leading separate lives, which behaviors and circumstances create a block, even in the therapy process, and find out why self-awareness is a key element to healing your relationship.
We also discuss what is necessary to overcome a significant transgression and how Lori and Jeff help couples through that process, and they share plenty of other lived and learned relationship wisdom with us today.
Key Points From This Episode:
Why the couple-to-couple format is effective, especially for men.
What Jeff and Lori model to their clients by working through challenges in their relationship.
The number one problem that partners face within their marriages.
What contributes to living parallel lives.
How the felt experience of being in love changes for most couples.
Behaviors and circumstances which are insurmountable or extremely difficult to overcome, even in therapy.
The pattern-oriented nature of our relational selves.
How Lori and Jeff navigated their protective patterns when they first met.
The biggest takeaway from relationship therapy.
Why no healing is possible without self-awareness.
Creating a new relationship using information from the past.
Identifying what you want from your life and what you want from a partner to identify a roadmap forwards.
Navigating moving past a significant transgression using the example of the fictional couple Eric and Melanie.
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