I wanted to follow up with you and let you know, that after a little over a month, the program has began to work for me! I can't believe it! I listened to your wife's audios and my husband listened to his. Nothing in him changed. He had made up his mind and nothing was going to change it. I could not get him to see anything else. I wanted to give up. I felt that the tapes had failed me and it was time to let him go.
Then I decided that I would try one last thing – another marriage program. I was desperate and had nothing to lose. I ordered it, and listened to it immediately. The funny thing was that everything that the speaker was saying, I had heard before. It was what Dr. Ellen had been saying in her CD's. As I listened more, I began to realize that he really liked to hear himself talk and was all very self promoting, where what Dr. Ellen had been saying was just plain fun and from the heart.
I put that program away, and pulled Dr. Ellen’s back out. I listen again to her words, and realized that I shouldn't give up. Maybe, my husband just wasn't ready to hear to what she had to say. Maybe he just needed a little more time, but that was okay, because I had been doing what she taught me all along, but I was not being patient. Maybe all I needed to do, was let up and continue to be the best that I could be, and when the time was ready for him to join me, he would. Well it seems as he has! Sometimes an apology can be the very thing to make a connection. Not just "I'm sorry for what I did", but an apology for the pain that I caused my husband.
How he felt about the way that I handled problems, and that I forgot that it was my job to get him through the pain, not cause the pain. So I wrote it all to him in a letter and gave it to him. I couldn't tell him. I would have just broken down. That was on Wednesday, the 12th. From that point on, it seemed as if everything changed. It has actually been getting better for a couple of weeks now, but nothing compared to what has gone on since Wednesday. For the first time in 3 months, my husband initiated contact with me. He had barely touched me in 3 months, and now I have been getting hugs and kisses and tons of laughs and smiles.
Yesterday, while driving, I asked him if he had learned anything after listening to the men’s program. He did! When he began telling me what Dr. Ellen was able to get through to him, that I had been trying years to tell him, I began to cry. I had been waiting for him to tell me that he wasn't leaving and because I was so wrapped up into what he was saying, I wasn't paying attention to what he was doing! He has been reacting to the changes in me all along, but because he was still saying that he was leaving, that was all that I could focus on. This is the first time in 3 months that he didn't sneak in a comment somewhere about leaving. They were never mean comments, but he would just kind of make a funny comment about when he was gone. I didn't hear one of them this weekend.
I feel for the first time in a long time, that we are going to be living happily ever after! All of this is thanks to Dr. Ellen. I can't believe that I ever doubted her. Her program is 4 times cheaper than the other one I bought and she really gives you the tools you need. She did not self promote her $450.00 an hour office calls that will really fix your relationship. She is the real deal and I am so grateful that I found her website. My husband has not said that he is staying, but because of Dr. Ellen, he doesn't have to. I can see it!
I just wanted to thank you so much for giving me the tools that I needed to have the marriage I had always dreamed of. I have recommended your program to every one I know and my therapist just bought a copy of each one, because of what I told her. Needless to say, the other program I purchased is going back!
Warmest Regards,
Brandy