When a mother-in-law overwhelmingly dominates or controls your spouse, but your spouse doesn’t (or refuses) to see it, it’s only a matter of time until you reach your breaking point. Recently, I received an email from a woman (we’ll call her Jan) whose mother-in-law was trying to get closer to her former black sheep son [...]

If you’re searching for children of divorce statistics, there’s a good chance your plan is to show your spouse the devastating effects of divorce on children in an effort to convince your wife or husband to stay. Unfortunately, when a spouse has already filed for divorce or emotionally “checked out”, this isn’t going to work. [...]

I received the following message from a man named Robert who has reached “The Snap Line”, the end of the rope. This man has requested that I re-post his message to be seen by other spouses in hopes that they will wake up and not wait until it’s too late to do something about their marriage struggles.

Read Robert’s message to get a perspective from a leaving spouse because if YOU are the one who wants to save the marriage, there’s a good chance this is exactly how your spouse feels right now…

Over the years, I’ve received a lot of questions about how to act around a spouse going through a midlife crisis.

* Should you ask questions about what he or she is going through?
* Should you talk to your spouse about getting some help?
* Should you avoid your spouse completely?

Here is best way to deal with a spouse going through a mid life crisis…

When living with a spouse in midlife crisis, and you are in the same house, your job is to look like you have something to do at all times. You are busy and productive. If you talk, it is always calm and pleasant and about a life management issue, rather than how he or she personally feels or what your spouse did.

Remember, in a midlife crisis, your spouse likely views you as the enemy of where they want to go and what they want to do, even though in reality you are not the enemy…

Jeffrey’s Question For Larry

Hi Larry,

I’m married for a month and a half year. My wife is from another country and we met at a library. Things seemed great and then she asked me personal questions in my life and I lied about some things out of shame.

We got into shoving matches and stuff and now she left home. She told me how shes fed up and she doesn’t love me anymore. Now I’m at a loss there’s so much too tell that I want help with but I want this marriage to work and I don’t know what to say or do she seems to get madder at me and it hurts Larry like my soul is gone and I do believe we are chaos kids cuz of our rough pasts.

I believe that I can help her in school and be a better husband for her but she’s so hard to reach and ignores my calls a lot. So Larry what do I do is it too late? I don’t know but i love her more than anything how do I show her? Thank you for your time I hope to hear from you soon before its even more too late.

Larry’s Answer To Jeffrey: