You Can Make A Bad Relationship Or Marriage End Well

Sometimes people get into relationships that simply never should have happened and can't be made to work because the foundation just isn't there. If you're in one of these, don't be afraid of letting go, because life does go on, a lot better than when you're trapped in a no-win situation.This is an unpleasant subject for a lot of people, and understandably so, but it's one that I have to address from time to time because it can't be ignored. There are a lot of reasons people get into relationships, as well as stay in them, and unfortunately, some of them are really, REALLY bad reasons.The high and still constantly climbing divorce rates of recent decades bear this out. Couples used to court for a long time to make sure that after the excitement of attraction wore off there was still something for them to base a relationship on, like love, attraction and compatibility, but that has long since past, especially now that premarital sex is the norm rather than the exception.And I'm not saying that premarital sex is inherently good or bad, or even that it is a cause; in spite of what cleverly misrepresentative statistics suggest, it's not a cause at all. Indeed, rationally speaking, premarital sex can keep you from marrying someone with whom you are sexually incompatible. Sexual incompatibility is just as big a problem and just as common a cause of divorce as value incompatibility, no matter what your religious affiliation.Whether or not fornication and divorce are sins and which you would prefer to ask forgiveness for is your concern, not mine. The point I'm trying to make is that people get caught up in the emotions of life, a relationship and sexual issues and make ill-conceived and self-destructive decisions about lifelong commitments that they later find they can't hold to, because after all that excitement is gone and they have to actually start talking, they discover problems, like their values are diametrically opposed, or their personalities or majority of tastes are at odds, or there is some other compatibility problem that makes for too many points of contention in their life for them to coexist.It's a scary feeling when you're faced with the reality of a bad choice like that, because by the time attraction naturally wears off and a problem is recognized an average of two years has passed, and then another few years are spent trying to overcome problems that are too big to handle and everybody starts being angry at everybody else for not trying hard enough or not being "good enough" to handle it.That's utter rubbish, because in reality it's not about being good enough, but about being compatible enough, but it still causes fights and helps attorneys to get rich getting you out of it, especially when you get with one of the less scrupulous ones who tries to escalate the fighting to create more work and more money for themselves. And there's a much better way to handle the situation when you realize that, like Andy did:David, Hello!I wrote to you many months ago about my ex-wife and how she just walked out on me after 20 years of marriage. She actually did me the biggest favor anyone could ever do, and that I had bought your book to learn what I had done wrong in my marriage! Well things have really changed in my life since I read your book and applied what I have learned!Your book is a Godsend and it has changed my life! I've met a fantastic woman, her name is Shari. She says that I am the most awesome man she has ever met! She is always coming on to me as if she can't get enough! I've never been so happy in my life! What you teach is so true! A man doesn't have to ever ask for sex, all he has to do is act like a real man!Thanks for helping me change my life for the better!AndyAndy was one of the lucky ones. According to his letters, he and his wife were "comfortably unhappy" for two decades before she left, and when Andy sat down and did a thorough evaluation of what his relationship had been in trying to figure out what went wrong with his marriage, it was clear that it never should have happened to start with. He learned from his mistakes, made a few personal improvements along the way, and now has women chasing him, and is able to pick from all of them the one whom he'll spend the rest of his life with when she finally turns up, which is what dating is really all about.Yes, really! Dating is not about trying to "catch" somebody or find somebody that you can make enough compromises with to get them to marry you. It's about exposing yourself to enough candidates that the right one is finally exposed for you to select! And in the meantime, it's about learning and having fun, not sitting by the phone wondering if you were "good enough" to get somebody to call you. But...and it's a big but...If you don't feel good about yourself and have the self-esteem, sense of adventure and natural comfort that comes from being happy with yourself, dating is a nightmare scenario, because as these candidates are exposing themselves to you, you're also exposing yourself, the self that you are not comfortable with, to them. You have to HAVE a life to SHARE a life, right? And you have to love, respect and enjoy yourself before you can love, respect or enjoy anyone else. But as you will see in my book, that's the easiest part, once you find out how.So where are you today? Are you happy, or comfortably unhappy? Or are you just plain miserable and scared to death to move on because you think that being unhappy with somebody is better than being unhappy and alone? No matter what shape you're in, good or bad, it can be better, and as people like Andy will tell you, it doesn't take much to make it better. Think not? Come to http://www.makingherhappy.com and I'll prove it to you!In the meantime, live well, be well, and have a wonderful day!David Cunningham"Being a man is something to which one should aspire, not something for which he should apologize." --David Cunningham