How Learning to Dance Can Help Your Marriage In 2024

 Earlier this year, at a retreat put on by All Pro Dad and WinShape Retreat, I learned that I’m actually good at one type of dance. But it’s something I shouldn’t be good at. It’s called The Marriage Fear Dance. The Marriage Fear Dance is what leads to us being stuck in our marriage and aimlessly going ‘round and ‘round. It involves a fruitless cycle of button pushing, reactions, fears, and emotions that can keep your marriage in a bad place. Fortunately, we had a good dance instructor at the retreat that taught us how to recognize and learn to dance in a way that is beneficial to our marriage.

What is the Marriage Fear Dance?

The Marriage Fear Dance is a nonproductive cycle that starts with an action that triggers an emotion driven action in the other spouse. This then leads to the first person defending or reacting from an emotional state as well. Then the back and forth continues.

When you find yourself dancing the wrong dance, the Marriage Fear Dance, there are three things you can do to stop it and get is step.

  • Take personal responsibility

Taking personal responsibility stops this right in its tracks before you get to reacting, fears, and negative emotions. It puts you in the position where you say, I won’t react, but I’ll choose how I respond. Your response should be in love, whether you felt what pushed your buttons was done in love or not. The next two things are ways to take personal responsibility.

  • Believe the best in your wife

NASCAR drivers must continually look where they are going, even if that means looking around the corner. If they look at the wall, they will inevitably hit the wall.

If you believe the best of your wife, that she is not pushing your buttons on purpose, then you can respond in a way well. Believe that you and your wife have the same goals and intentions, although they may come out differently. 

  • Seek first to understand

This is a truth from Steven Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. We don’t think like our wives. That’s well-known. So, if that is the case, we need to seek to understand.


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