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Change My Relationship offers practical solutions based on biblical truths for all difficult relationships from Karla Downing, Marriage & Family Therapist.
Change My Relationship offers practical solutions based on biblical truths for all difficult relationships from Karla Downing, Marriage & Family Therapist.
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May 1, 2024
Face Your Fears Before You Set a Boundary
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024
15 min
Face your fears before you set a boundary. Because setting limits is a risk, it isn't easy, especially in difficult relationships where you will get pushback. When you do, you have to stand firm; if you haven't faced your fears first, you will have trouble doing that. You can have strong boundaries once you have faced your fears.
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Apr 26, 2024
Navigating a Marital Separation
Apr 26, 2024
Apr 26, 2024
14 min
Navigating a marital separation carefully is critical in maximizing the chances that there will be the necessary changes that will allow you to reunite. If it isn't done correctly, marital separation can actually be a step toward divorce and make it harder to get back together. Listen to this podcast before you navigate a marital separation.
#MaritalSeparation #ChristianRelationships #DysfunctionalRelationship
Separation Guidelines: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/christians-and-divorce-navigating-a-separation/
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Apr 22, 2024
Do You Know the Dance of Intimacy?
Apr 22, 2024
Apr 22, 2024
9 min
Do you know the dance of intimacy? Healthy relationships have mutual interactions where both people make moves that bring them closer together. Unhealthy relationships lack these skills and as a result, they often move further apart.
You can assess how well you do each of these things in your relationships. You can also assess how well the other person does them to recognize the potential for growth in your relationship.
Dysfunctional relationships are confusing. Learning how to identify unhealthy patterns will help you make sense of them.
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Watch this video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ILJ6Dgu8LfM

Apr 18, 2024
Apr 18, 2024
11 min
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. So why do we keep on doing the same thing if we know better? The answer is that we don't know what else to do. What we are doing makes sense because it is familiar and makes us feel less anxious. Figuring out what else to do is often overwhelming and complicated. But what if the answer was simple--just do something different. Anything except what you are doing and quite possibly the opposite.
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Apr 15, 2024
The Grief Process for Divorce
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
10 min
Divorce is painful and extremely difficult to go through. You will experience profound grief even if you know that there is no other option than to get out of a dysfunctional marriage. The grief process has the same stages no matter what the loss is. The intensity increases when the severity of the loss increases. The more you understand the grief process, the easier it will be for you to work through it. This podcast describes the grief process that you will go through during your divorce. Please listen to it to increase your awareness and understanding. #griefandhealing #divorcehealing #dysfunctionalmarriage
Stages of Grief for Divorce: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/the-grief-process-in-divorce/
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Apr 12, 2024
7 Signs Indicating an Affair Is Truly Over
Apr 12, 2024
Apr 12, 2024
14 min
What are the signs indicating that your partner's affair is truly over? It isn't unusual for affairs to stop and start again when the betrayed partner finds out about the affair. Because you will be making important decisions, you need to know how to recognize the signs of a true ending compared to a false ending where your partner will return to the affair. Listen to this podcast to learn 7 signs indicating an affair is truly over. #SexualAddiction #RebuildingTrust #DysfunctionalMarriage
Seven Signs: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/7-signs-your-spouses-affair-is-truly-over/
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Apr 8, 2024
Stop Victimizing Yourself
Apr 8, 2024
Apr 8, 2024
19 min
If you have difficulty owning your power to take care of yourself with people and live your life according to your own convictions, you may need to learn how to stop victimizing yourself. There a number of things you may be doing that are unnecessarily making you a victim. You may have learned them in your family of origin or be doing them to survive a difficult relationship. The truth is that you don't have to keep doing them. Watch this video to identify what you are doing to victimize yourself and how you can stop doing it.
#selflove #selfcare #selfimprovement
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Apr 5, 2024
Apr 5, 2024
13 min
Understanding how cognitive dissonance affects you will empower you to make decisions that honor who you are. This is especially important in dysfunctional relationships where you are pressured to give up so much of who you are to stay in the relationship and pacify people who ask you to violate your own standards.
Website: https://www.changemyrelationship.com/
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Apr 1, 2024
Apr 1, 2024
11 min
Try grey rocking when you don't want to engage with narcissists, manipulators, and other dysfunctional people. It is an effective way to keep you from getting drawn into the drama by attempting to explain or defend your truth. Watch this video to find out what grey rocking is and how to use it.
#detaching #ToxicRelationship #GreyRocking
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Mar 29, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
13 min
Does "Love Covers a Multitude of Sins" equal tolerance? Does it mean you close your eyes and ignore the harmful things people do to you? Do you have to continue to forgive and move on? Or does it mean something else entirely? You need to know the answers to these questions if that Bible verse directs any of your responses to unhealthy people. Watch this video to find out what it really means.
#RelationshipTrauma #ToxicRelationship #AbusiveRelationship
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