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When Your Spouse Stops Being Your Project

I have met many spouses who seem to be living out their days waiting for that breakthrough moment when their marriage will finally transform from bad to good, from difficult to easy, from ordinary to extraordinary. Many spouses are desperate for their marriage to improve, so they long for it and pray for it to finally happen. They know, of course, that if there is to be that kind of momentous leap, there must first be a momentous change. But here’s something I have long observed: few spouses bel