I came across this today while on my email updates with Meridian Magazine, and I wanted to share it because I have such a passion with strengthening marriage, even when aspects have made the marriage get to the end of the thread. This is just one of MANY wonderful links I can share with you. I believe some of them I have right on the home page of this site... I'll have to think about sharing a whole bunch of great links that I have helped strengthen myself and my marriage as well.

I do have to note in this as I have had many friends who have been in toxic marriage relationships that they've tried to work through, but they cannot obviously do it on their own. I think if both parties worked towards the goal at hand it could work - but the common phrase of "it takes two to tango" really does apply. One cannot put all the blame on the other, one cannot say they are exempt from mistakes and their spouse is the problem, one cannot simply push the responsibility of oneself away from issues at hand and pretend that they aren't there amongst so many other things that can be toxic, such as abuse (in all its forms) - controlling abuse, emotional, spiritual, physical and so on. I'm going to have to touch more on this subject since it is such a passion on both sides of the spectrum.

Anyway, here is the link that I found very enlightening:

STRENGTHENING MARRIAGE.COM