What causes relationship problems?

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Gloria MacDonald
Perfect Partners
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Gloria MacDonald is the founder and President of Perfect Partners, The Personal Relationship Executive Search Firm, a highly successful, personalized matchmaking service. Gloria has interviewed hundreds and hundreds of single men and women and has introduced over 1500 couples. She is an expert in the field of dating and relationships, having appeared on a variety of TV and radio shows. She’s the co-author of the highly acclaimed book Laws of the Jungle: Dating for Women Over 40. She believes, and has seen through her work, that there is a perfect partner for anyone of us who truly desires to find that relationship, believes they can have it, and are willing to accept it. Gloria is an engaging and dynamic speaker and trainer who changes lives. Testimonials from people who have attended Gloria’s seminars: “Gloria uses her exceptional knowledge of real world dating and her unique and exciting style to inspire women to not give up. Truly a wonderful presenter. I would highly recommend anything she does now and in the future.” “This is the information single women and men have been waiting for.” “A truly engaging seminar. You are obviously an expert on the topic. Your knowledge, compassion, sensitivity and forthrightness was spiced with humour to create a clean and practical approach to relationship success.” “Attending your seminar has truly been an inspiration. YOU ARE AN AMAZING TRAINER!”

What causes relationship problems?

 

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Speaker: What causes relationship problems?

Gloria Macdonald: I believe, there are four main things that cause relationship problems. The first one is the inherit differences between men and women and women expecting men to be like us and non-understanding and getting frustrated when they are not and vice versa. Men expecting women to be like them, although generally speaking, it really is more women expecting men to be like us and then we get frustrated when they are not.

The second thing is people not taking responsibility for the relationship, whoever it is, whether it's the men or the women. Although, I believe that generally speaking, it's women who are responsible for making a relationship successful, but in either case, it's people not taking responsibility for the success of their relationship.

The third thing is knowing our mate versus understanding our mates; so often we feel like, oh, I know, what he is going to do or I can predict what she is going to say if I say this that or the other thing, but we do we truly understand our mates. So the third thing is not understanding our partners.

The fourth thing is going into relationship, knowing that quitting is not an option. One of the major things that causes divorce and breakup today is that we know subconsciously that if things don't go our away, if we don't like the way the things are going, we can't get out. So we really have to go into relationship knowing that quitting is not an option.

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