Love the One You're With: Re-Energize the Passion in Your Marriage
By Lee Ellis
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Maybe you have always dreamed of having a family, but your current relationship just isn’t what you thought it would be. Your dream come true would be to get the passion back in your marriage, but you just don’t think it’s possible. Does leaving your current relationship scare you, but staying and taking the risk that things will never get better scare you even worse?
In Love the One You’re With, Lee Ellis will inspire you to look at your relationship in a new way. She will show you how you can get the spark back in your marriage—and in your life. Lee shares her years of experience in working with clients, using real examples of people who completely turned their lives around using her simple techniques.
In Love the One You’re With, you will discover:
· Why most marriages fail, and how you can beat the statistics
· Why trading in one partner for another almost never fixes the problem, and how to be happy in your current relationship instead
· Why people repeat the same patterns over and over—and how to break the cycle
· Why trying to change your partner never works, and how to more effectively get what you want
Read Love the One You’re With and discover the secrets to being happy now without having to start over.
Lee Ellis
Lee Ellis earned his PhD from Florida State University in 1982. For most of his teaching career, he was professor of sociology at Minot State University in North Dakota. After retiring from MSU in 2008, Dr. Ellis accepted a two-year visiting professorship at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he conducted research. Now semi-retired, he continues conducting research and authoring articles and books including Handbook of Crime Correlates and Handbook of Social Status Correlates.
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Love the One You're With - Lee Ellis
Introduction
When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down
happy. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
– John Lennon
Ibet you had an idea of how you wanted your life to turn out when you were a kid. If you are like most people, you thought you would get married, have a house, a job, two kids, a dog or a cat, and you would live happily ever after.
Either you idealized your parents’ marriage, or you didn’t want to turn out like them. Either way, you dreamed that you would find the right person, get married, and it would be easy.
I fall into the category of idealizing my parents’ marriage. I always dreamed that I would end up just like them as I watched them dance, while my dad kissed my mom and whispered, I love you,
in her ear. Imagine my surprise when my mom picked me up from a friend’s house at the age of 14 and told me they had decided to separate. My dad never came back to the house and they got a divorce a year later. What do you think that experience taught me?
Now that you are married, you realize it’s not as easy as you thought it would be when you were a kid. You’re probably wondering if you should go ahead and get a divorce before you end up trapped, with kids and no way out. Maybe you think you married the wrong person because that spark just isn’t there anymore. With the divorce rate in the United States being 40 to 50 percent and the rate for subsequent marriages even higher, it would be hard to not at least think of divorce as an option.
I bet you would give anything to go back to the way you felt about your partner at the beginning of the relationship, when conversation flowed easily, and passion was a given. Back to when their habits didn’t annoy you and their words were almost always kind. What if you never get that back and things just continue to get worse? An unhappy marriage can make you feel like your entire life is miserable.
But what if you could be happy in your marriage again? What if you could actually have an even deeper connection than you ever imagined possible? Picture yourself ten years from now, having stayed in your marriage, and having a stronger relationship than ever. Picture yourself having a happy family, taking vacations together, and living life to the fullest.
The truth is that most marriages go through at least one rough period where divorce is a consideration. The good news is that, according to a study by Linda Waite, two out of three unhappily married adults who avoided divorce or separation ended up happily married five years later.
My desire for you is that you read this book and find out that you can turn your marriage around. I want you to put down this book and not only be inspired to stay in your marriage, but I want you to have a plan of action and the motivation to carry it out. I know your dream come true is to save this marriage and I want to help you do it.
I am going to give you a lot of information in this book. You will start to understand why things in your marriage have gone wrong and why things you have tried haven’t worked. You will see why so many marriages fail, and how you can beat the statistics. You will have all the information and help needed to be successful.
I know this can be scary. If your only two choices are to stay in an unhappy marriage or get a divorce, your near future looks grim. But I want you to hang in there and know that there is hope. With the information in this book, you can do what it takes to get the passion back in your marriage and in your life.
Chapter 1:
Where Did the Spark Go?
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
– Marilyn Monroe
Tammy met Chad at a party during her senior year in college. She was immediately attracted to him, and he asked her out on a date. She was nervous at first, but they had so much in common that conversation was easy. They became inseparable in a very short amount of time, and when they weren’t together, Tammy couldn’t stop thinking about Chad. They emailed and texted even when they were supposed to be studying or working. When Tammy talked about Chad, her face lit up, and she was sure this is what it means to fall in love. Chad felt the same way, and shortly after graduation, he proposed.
The wedding was perfect, but not as perfect as the honeymoon. They just couldn’t get enough of each other. But a few months later, life seemed to be getting in the way of their relationship and passion. They were both working long hours, and their hours did not always coincide, so they didn’t see each other as much as they did before they got married. When they did spend time together, they didn’t have as much to talk about as they once did. They also didn’t seem as passionate in the bedroom and their sex life suffered. Tammy started to worry. Had she married the wrong person? Had Chad already lost interest in her? What did she do wrong? Why didn’t they seem to feel the same way about each other?
As time went on, Tammy noticed that Chad had some annoying habits. When she got home, she would become annoyed almost instantly if she noticed that he left his dirty dishes in the sink or hadn’t made the bed when he was the last one to get up. They started bickering about the cleanliness of the house and keeping score of whose turn it was to do the laundry.
Falling in Love
When I ask my clients to tell me about how they first met their partners, their faces almost invariably light up. As they recall how they were feeling in the beginning, I can see the excitement and passion