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 How long has it been since you had a real and meaningful talk with your spouse? What did you talk about? Your work, some political issues and perhaps the finances of your family? If you assess the level of your intimacy now, would you still say that you love each other?

It’s so easy to put the blame on the other person and say that he or she is not giving you enough time. But is that really the case? If you allowed the misunderstandings and lack of communication to fester, you might have gone through the painful experience of an affair recently.

Perhaps the affair is but a symptom of a deeper problem, which you have not given attention to. If you truly love each other, go down to the root problems and do not deal only with the symptoms. Unless you go through the difficult process of digging through the root problems, you will keep on dealing with surface matters in your marriage.

It seems easy to consult a lawyer and file for divorce but if you do so right away, you might deprive yourself of the valuable lessons you will learn from the affair that you have gone through. No matter how difficult it may seem, go to the root problems of your marriage and learn from the lessons and mistakes.

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