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Pause in the Gap: Trying to Force An Answer Is Not the Way

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:November 7, 2023
Post category:Co-Parenting Dating Love Married Life mindfulness Parenting relationship building Relationships Spirituality

If you can pause and consider the gap when you feel frustrated or impatient, you can tune in to your own feelings more accurately. And if you give your partner the opportunity to fill the gap you may learn something you didn't know, and something you couldn't have learned had you continued to be a gap crasher.

Standing Strong with Your Partner As They Struggle: Bounded Love

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:February 5, 2022
Post category:Anger Dating Depression Drinking Health and Fitness humans of divorce mindfulness relationship building Relationships Self-care Spirituality

Even if our partners ask us to send lawyers, guns, and money, we need to stay on our own path and offer them an empathetic ear and a solid base of loving AND SILENT support.

Rising Again from a Depressed Silence: Dating a Divorced Dad

Post author:John McElhenney
Post published:May 21, 2015
Post category:Dating Depression Health and Fitness humans of divorce Love Relationships Self-care Single-Dad

I learned that one person cannot keep a marriage together no matter how hard they try or how much they want to keep the family together. I was in agreement that things could not continue as they had been.