How To Deal With Resentment in Your Marriage

Introduction
Lesson 1 – Resentment and Your Relationship
3 Topics
Do you see yourself as the Injured Partner or the Offending Partner?
All resentments are not created equal: Three types of resentment
How resentment can destroy a marriage
Decide To Deal With Resentment
Lesson 2 – DECIDE to give up resentment
8 Topics
Stubbornness and refusal to change
Injured Partner: How to DECIDE to let it go
Offending Partner: DECIDE what to do
Understanding resentment
Can you relate to any of these resentments?
Anatomy of resentment in your marriage: Part 1
Anatomy of resentment in your marriage: Part 2
What beliefs stop the Injured Partner from letting go of resentment?
ACKNOWLEDGE the issue causing resentment
Lesson 3 – ACKNOWLEDGE your contribution to both the problem and your reaction to it
7 Topics
Empathy: Injured Partner responsibility
Empathy: Offending Partner challenges
Injured Partner: Acknowledge your hurt
Offending Partner: Acknowledge what you did – fall on your sword!
Seeing resentment from your partner’s point of view
What would a camera see of how you handled a resentment event?
Feeling what your partner feels about events that cause resentment
REMEMBER skills that work for you
Lesson 4 – REMEMBER skills that work for you to deal with resentment in your marriage
6 Topics
Injured Partner: Remember thought tools to let it go
Offending Partner: Remember how to stay out of trouble
Affirmations for both partners
Self-Talk for Injured Partner to remember
Self-Talk for Offending Partner to remember
Widen your viewing lens of the Offending Partner
EXECUTE a plan to forgive, or ask forgiveness
Lesson 5 – Executing winning strategies to deal with resentment
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
Injured Partner: Execute winning strategies
Offending Partner: Execute winning strategies
Five Losing Strategies for the Injured Partner
Five Losing Strategies for the Offending Partner
Winning strategy quiz
Where to go from here
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Anatomy of resentment in your marriage: Part 1

How To Deal With Resentment in Your Marriage Lesson 2 – DECIDE to give up resentment Anatomy of resentment in your marriage: Part 1

It is now time to personalize your resentment program to issues you and your partner are having.

To do this, we have produced an ebook for you which you can download here and print out.

This is your own personal manual/workbook to help you let go or resentment by encouraging you to reflect more on resentment in your relationship or marriage from both the viewpoint of the injured partner and the offending partner.

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