Why Try to Save Your Marriage If It Causes You Pain?
This article is being brought to you by Marriage Counseling Ashburn and Marriage Counseling Vienna VA Introduction What should you do in a marriage with emotional pain that doesn't go away? Ignore it? If so, for how long? Try to escape the pain through alcohol, infidelity, binge TV watching, etc.? These provide temporary relief. All the while, the marriage is dying. A Different Way to Look at Pain Dr. Brand worked with leprosy patients in India and America for most of his adult life. Leprosy (Hansen’s disease), it turns out, represents an attack on the nervous system. Pain that would otherwise warn individuals that they are in physical jeopardy does not exist. They feel nothing. In poorer regions of the world, rats chew fingers and toes while a person sleeps. Hands were burned in cooking fires because there was no warning signal to tell the brain to move the hand immediately. Equally grim stories of deterioration are...