Saving your relationship before it’s too late

I was listening to a patient the other day tell me about problems in his relationship: resentments, disappointments, fights, lack of time together. And I found myself telling him, “You guys need help. Fast. Your relationship is close to the breaking point. Too often people wake up to find their relationship is already broken before they’ve even realized how bad the damage is.”

And he said, “Tell me more about this breaking point.”

And I started to wonder, just how do you define the point where a relationship is broken?  (more…)