{"id":15296,"date":"2023-04-05T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2023-04-05T21:00:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T04:00:50","slug":"3-tips-to-deal-with-relationship-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/3-tips-to-deal-with-relationship-doubts\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Tips to Deal with Relationship Doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody has doubts about their relationship from time to time. Like the time I woke up sick the night after a trip to Tijuana and my husband\u2019s first response was \u201cHa ha ha!\u201d<\/p>\n

That was our first anniversary. And I thought \u201cWhat is this thing that I\u2019ve married?\u201d<\/p>\n

But I had much more serious doubts a few years later, so severe that I nearly ended my marriage. So I know how painful it is when you\u2019re feeling like your values don\u2019t match your husband\u2019s at all or he\u2019s engaging in behavior that you never would have condoned or his parenting is not at all what you see your children needing to thrive.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wrestling with those doubts multiple times a day, it\u2019s an exhausting and scary place to be.<\/p>\n

What if those doubts make you question your own judgment about having said \u201cI do\u201d?<\/p>\n

What if your marriage is a big mistake and you can\u2019t get back to the life you should be leading while you\u2019re married? Then you should leave, right?<\/p>\n

But what if you leave and you devastate your husband and your kids and you end up breaking your own heart too? What if you don\u2019t really want to leave but you have a nagging suspicion that you should?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a terrible quandary, and since you can\u2019t know what your life in a parallel universe where you do leave would look like, how can you really know what the right decision is?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very tempting to jump on the fence and stay there.<\/p>\n

But doubt is the devil. It eats away at the joy and connection you could be having if only you could find your faith, and it pretends that you have no choice but to suffer or leave.<\/p>\n

Here are three tips that will help you get off the fence:<\/p>\n

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