Don’t avoid confronting the tough stuff.
Problems are bound to arise — and ignoring them only gives them room to fester. A woman in the midst of a painful divorce told me the one thing she wished she’d done differently was “learn to work through issues. You can’t just put things under a blanket and pretend they don’t exist.” And if a problem seems too big to handle by yourselves, seek the help of a counselor sooner rather than later. As one divorce lawyer said, most separating couples she worked with had seen a therapist, but still ended up in her office anyway. Why? “The answer is simple — they waited too long.”