Tag: love and approval

When you start out in your new marriage, you’re vibrating with the delicious thought that "this is the one." You want this marriage is to last forever, and that you'll find love, happiness and fulfillment each and every day.

In general, you do. But then something happens, something goes wrong and either your spouse doesn't turn out to be who you thought they were or you don't feel loved the way you thought you would. Among all the reasons things can go wrong in a relationship, one of the most prevalent and least recognized is our tendency to confuse approval with love.