Submitted by Marnia on Sat, 2008-11-29 18:10
Sorry you're stuck. Daily bonding behaviors may help. Bonding behaviors are subconscious mammalian attachment cues, which can help improve the harmony between you - without talking.
Submitted by imnotcoming on Wed, 2011-07-06 13:22
"I have often suggested that more pain in our society comes from broken primary relationships than from any other source. If we could ever reduce the incidence of marital breakup from 40 to 50 percent of all marriages to single digits, I suspect it would be one of the greatest accomplishments of our time."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-neil-clark-warren/on-second-thought-don...
Submitted by CuriousFellow on Tue, 2008-12-09 23:13
The storm clouds of a week ago have dissipated, and we are now about where we were a few weeks ago. Zoe mostly leaves me alone and doesn't get down on my case about everything imaginable.
Submitted by CuriousFellow on Sun, 2008-11-30 17:09
This article caught my interest, because my estranged wife has mentioned codependency in the past, and admits that she is trying to live independently from me. (Neither of us has any serious addictions that I know of.)
According to the article, the concept of codependency (as a bad thing) makes no sense for normal relationships. The concept originally was intended to apply only to relationships where one or both partners had some serious addiction, such as to alcohol.
Submitted by CuriousFellow on Sat, 2008-11-29 20:56
I'm posting some messages sent to me with the author's permission. This was in response to the thread at http://www.reuniting.info/node/1792.
Hello CuriousFellow,
I was reading your blog and reflecting on something I've been studying lately, human developmental levels. I could not explain it to you though, but you can read all about it at the blog I'm linking you to below.
A little tidbit from the blog:
Submitted by CuriousFellow on Tue, 2008-10-14 22:38
Yesterday morning, Zoe (my wife) drove me to work. She had been amazingly pleasant that morning. So as I was about to get out of the car, I figured that would be a good time to try to give her a hug - after all, I couldn't very well jump her bones right there by the doorway to the company, so maybe I wouldn't trigger her anti-hug defenses. I leaned way over in the front seat of the car and gave her a hug as best I could. She just sat there and gave me a swat on the head, and told me to run along, she had other things to do.
