Let's just say it. Three marriages. Three divorces. And for a long time, I thought the problem was the women I married.
I was wrong.
I got married the first time at nineteen years old, thinking I had it all figured out. I didn't. Fast forward to thirty nine, three divorces deep, sitting in a therapist's office with a whole list of everything everybody else did wrong. My therapist wasn't moved. Twenty minutes in, she asked me one question that wrecked me: "When did you learn that conflict means someone has to lose?"
I had nothing. Because she was right.
This book isn't me building a case against anybody I loved. It's me finally looking in the mirror and telling the truth about what I saw. Ten real mistakes. Not theories. Not "some men struggle with this." Things I actually did, more than once, to real women who deserved better than what I knew how to give at the time.
I walk you through all ten: Toxic Trade. Silent Treatment. Score Keeping Love. Borrowed Blueprint. Provider, Not Present. Disrespect Detox. The Assumption Trap. Emotional Bankruptcy. Unburied Baggage. The Mirror Test.
Then I add a bonus chapter called "I Had to Change," plus two closing sections, His Mistakes and Her Mistakes, that pull no punches on either side.
Let's be clear. I'm not trying to talk anybody into a divorce. I believe marriage is worth fighting for, and divorce should be the last option after you've tried everything else. But when life happens, and it does, you have to learn how to recover. And you definitely don't want to carry the same ten mistakes into the next relationship.
Confession isn't weakness. Confession is where the healing actually starts.
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