Is It A Zombie Marriage??
Is your marriage infected by the "zombie virus?" Do you find your relationship to be the "walking dead?" Are emotions lost and connections m...
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The Save The Marriage Podcast
Learn how to save your marriage and improve your relationship. Stop your divorce and restore a loving relationship. Join Dr. Lee H. Baucom for this impactful podcast that can save your marri...
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20 of 223 episodesThis Question Can Wreck a Marriage
There are some questions that can help a marriage. There are many thoughts that can improve your relationship. But there is one question tha...
Anxiety-Anger Anchor
Do you find yourself and/or your spouse anchored to a problem by anxiety or anger? Guess what? Anger and Anxiety -- they come from the same...
The Marriage Saving ARC
Since my book, Thrive Principles, came out, people have asked me why I shifted my focus from saving marriages to thriving. In reality, there...
“Earning” Love? Not the Goal…
Sometimes, people tell me that as they are trying to save their marriage, they actually feel like they are trying to earn back the love of a...
Swiss Cheese and a Marriage Crisis
It may be an odd preoccupation, but I pour over the scuba accident reports. I like to see how the accidents happened, what led to the accide...
How to Deal with Negativity
It happens. In the middle of a marriage crisis, you can find yourself surrounded by negativity. A spouse negative about the marriage. Friend...
“What Does It Matter” pt. 1
I get asked this on a regular basis, both from people who are in the middle of wanting to save their marriage, and those who are wanting to...
Stop Your Blow-up
Slowly, slowly... you are making progress! You keep working on turning your marriage around... and it is working! Maybe you think it isn't m...
Stop Fishing!
You may just be on a fishing expedition, and not even realize it! If you are trying to get your spouse to respond, trying to get some feedba...
Right Thing vs. Right Way
Today, I tackle a pretty sensitive subject: the difference between "Doing The Right Thing" and "Doing It Right." Let me be very clear: I bel...
Space vs. Connection??
It is such a common demand from a spouse during a marital crisis: “I need space! You just need to give me space!” Yet here I am, telling you...
For When Marriage Gets Hard
“Why is marriage so hard?” That is a question I often hear from struggling couples. What happened? All of that love, all the connection, see...
Apology ==> Reconciling
You have already journeyed to here. Maybe your relationship is hurting and in pain. Maybe your connection has gone cold. But however you got...
Rejection…Protection…Perception!
You are working on your marriage. You reach out toward your spouse. . . only to feel rejected. After that stops you in your tracks. You star...
Are You Fighting for Connection?
“Should I even keep fighting for my marriage?”, asks “G.” Oof, that word… “fighting.” I hear it often. But so many times, when someone says...
Four Fails to Saving Your Marriage
First, let me be clear: if you are actively saving your marriage, working toward a better relationship... stop reading and go do something e...
What Stage is the Crisis?
In my Save The Marriage System Quick-Start Guide, I show the 8 distinct stages of a marriage crisis. But those are the stages of the crisis....
Marriage In The Kettle
You've heard the story about the frog and the kettle. It's the slowly heating water that sneaks up on the frog before it can react. Turns ou...
Having Hope vs. Building Hope
Most people wait for hope to show up. They treat it like weather — something that either arrives or doesn't, something outside their control...