Improving a marital relationship is something most people think of as a team effort—and ideally, it is. However, sometimes only one partner is actively trying to make things better and I see this quite often in my therapy work with clients – where they want to engage in couple therapy but their partner refuses (or begrudgingly attends – without motivation to work on the relationship). If this is the situation you are in, don’t despair. While you can't single-handedly fix e

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