Are You in a Maintenance Marriage?

Kathryn Dickel
10 min readJul 24, 2019

How to tell if you are and why to change it.

Recently I had a friend describe his marriage to me as a Jenga tower. As long as he didn’t pull out the wrong piece of the tower (aka ‘screw up’ and do something to upset his wife) everything was fine. But if he did, then the whole tower came crashing down, and his entire life became ‘very difficult.’ I imagined his wife screaming an angry ‘Jenga!’ at the top…

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