Save Your Relationship From Disaster
5. Associate the emotion you’re feeling presently with a similar emotion from a past event in your life. This will give your spouse a bit more context as to how your emotional drive works. (“I felt the same way when I lost my mother when I was 15.”) 6. Create a concrete statement using all of the above details. (“I feel alone, depressed and isolated because I lost my friend. It’s been two months since my best friend died but I still feel like it was yesterday. I feel so bad about what happened that I cry every night before going to sleep. The last time I felt this bad was when I lost my brother to an accident in 3rd grade, I was so devastated and I felt like it was my fault, though I know it wasn’t.”)
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