Emotionally Available For Your Spouse, Episode Two

Marketplace, Marriage And Ministry With Bill & Sonya Bates

1) Availability: You have to verbally seek to make amends if there’s an alt between you and your spouse.

• Being Emotionally Unavailable .. Occurs in short-term/long-term relationships
  • Unable or unwilling to share or express one's emotions with a spouse,
  • Being disconnected from one's own emotions.
  • Difficulty in forming close, meaningful relationship/marriage
  • Difficulty maintaining emotional intimacy with Spouse
  • Avoid emotional topics or distance themselves from their Spouse in
  • Protect themselves from being vulnerable or getting hurt They
  • Increased struggle to communicate their feelings or
  • Struggle with responding empathetically (the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.) to the feelings of your spouse

• A few Causes for becoming unavailable
  • A POSTURE of Selfishness .. Your Spouse is not the Priority
  • Lack of trust due to previous relationship issues
  • Not learning from the past and repeating it in the marriage
  • Past trauma
  • Attachment issues
  • Personality traits
  • Complex issues
  • Poor parenting/childhood trauma
  • Depression or anxiety

• Signs or Symptoms that you’ve lost communication with your spouse
  • Communication patterns are learned behaviors
    • The Silent Treatment / Stonewalling:

(Huge breakdown in Communication)

• Spouse shuts down or
• Spouse withdraws during a conversation
• Often a response to conflict or intense emotions
• Difficult to resolve issues or connect emotionally

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