Ask Andrew - questions about "I love you but.."

Dear Andrew,
I am seeking your advice on an issue my wife and are having with our
marriage.
After 5 years of marriage, my wife set up a therapy session. I will admit
that I have been against seeking help for fear of having to open up our
marriage to a stranger. Finally, my wife went herself [...]

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hi me and my partner have been together for a year and 3 months. My partner treats me right and we spend a lot of quality time together, but we always seem to argue about the same thing: my partner’s family. I don’t really like them, they seem to be really stuck up and into [...]

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Hi Andrew,
I’m hoping you can give me some direction. I’ve read your book cover to cover, and its given me so much insight on what might have gone wrong with our marriage of 9 years. My husband is 34 and I’m 31,we have a 3 year old son, a few months ago he blew me [...]

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Hi Andrew,
I keep your book next to my bed I read it over and over the advice makes so much sense, and I’m trying to live by some of the helpful suggestions. My question is, sometimes I wonder if I’m doing all of it in vain, as sometimes it seems he’s coming back to me, [...]

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Dear Andrew,

I’ve found your book very helpful but am wondering how a partner with clinical depression and anxiety fits in? Can your steps and exercises still work? Is it unfair to ask this of an ill partner? My husband and I have been together 19 years and for most of those years we were [...]

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Dear Andrew
I have read your book ILYB in an attempt to heal our relationship before it gets to this point. My partner and I have different nationalities but have been together for 20 years. We met abroad, settled in the UK (his home country) and have survived many ups and downs, including an affair and [...]

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Dear Andrew,
Many months have gone by now, and I am glad to report with the help of your book and the help of therapy my bf and I have now just moved TOGETHER to a new flat. We seem to be getting better, and we seem to be getting happier. He seems like a [...]

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Dear Andrew,
I have been in the happiest, healthiest relationship of my life. I’m 26, my boyfriend is 25. We both have been in serous relationships before. To give you a little background- We have been together 1 1/2 years. We met on the train commuting into work. We didn’t have the normal relationship courtship. We [...]

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Hi Andrew,
I have just discovered and read your book, “I love you but I’m not in love with you”.  This is a phrase which my husband said to me about 2 weeks ago which led me to your book.  While your book is the closest I have found in discovering some insight/guide in our [...]

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Dear Andrew,
Let me give you some background. I come from a divorced family, and my dad was never there for me. Meanwhile, since I was the youngest of 2 kids, I got babied, and got things handed to me. I never had to do chores at home, never had to clean up, never had to [...]

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Andrew G. Marshall is a marital therapist with twenty five years’ experience.

He works for RELATE the UK’s leading couple-counselling charity, and writes on relationships for the Times, Mail on Sunday and Psychologies.

His books have been translated into fifteen different languages.