Marriage Tips from Chanhassen & Eden Prairie Experts
Timothy McCarthy, PhD, LP and LMFT, (952.937.0866) says that while our culture places a lot of emphasis on building skills and knowledge to be competent in the economic sphere, people commonly enter lifelong relationships having given little thought on what it takes to make that work.
“We tend to have overly simplistic ideas about marriage: ‘you fall in love, you live happily ever after, if you aren’t happy you get divorced or have an affair,’” he says. “To look at marriage realistically, we need to understand that everyone is imperfect and there are going to be issues and patterns that get in the way of being unselfish, loving people.” …
