| When you're living in a loveless marriage it can feel | | | | effort into rekindling the flame. |
| very much like you're wasting your time and emotional | | | | If the distance between you and your spouse is being |
| energy. Many people in a situation like this wonder | | | | caused by an adulterous affair, that's a big concern. |
| about their future. They think about whether they | | | | Some couples decide to stay together for the sake of |
| should take the steps towards divorce or just accept | | | | their children after an affair has come to light. They |
| the fact that their relationship will never be what it | | | | think that they are doing what is best for their family |
| once was. If this sounds like a definition of your | | | | even though all the love that was there has been |
| marriage, you need to make some hard decisions. | | | | pushed aside in place of anger and resentment. If your |
| Unless you address the problems now and get the | | | | marriage has been rocked by infidelity and it's |
| marriage back on a loving track, you may have to | | | | impacted how you feel about your spouse, that's a |
| face a future filled with emptiness and loneliness. | | | | major concern. Simply saying that you two will stick |
| One thing you must give some careful thought to if | | | | together for the kids won't make the situation any |
| you're living in a loveless marriage is whether you still | | | | more tolerable. If keeping your family intact is that |
| like and respect your spouse. Falling out of love is | | | | important to you, you need to work on rebuilding the |
| sometimes confused with boredom or resentment. A | | | | marriage as well. Children can easily pick up on tension |
| couple gets to a place where they are so | | | | between their parents, so you need to work at |
| disconnected emotionally that they just stop trying to | | | | alleviating that and rediscovering the love and |
| get along. They usually either argue continuously or | | | | commitment. |
| they just don't talk at all. Spend some time thinking | | | | Deciding whether to continue living in a loveless |
| about your partner and what you feel for them. | | | | marriage isn't cut and dry. You and your partner need |
| Consider what your life would be without them and if | | | | to take some time to evaluate the potential for |
| growing old with them is still high on your priority list. If | | | | rebuilding the bond between the two of you. Once you |
| you realize that you still need them or want them, | | | | do that you can then move forward with your decision |
| that's a sure sign that you need to put some serious | | | | knowing you've worked together to reach a solution. |