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It’s true. It shouldn’t be too hard to accept because it’s the absolute truth.<\/span><\/p>\n 80% of couples in the United States of America are in dysfunctional relationships, unhealthy, and probably not going to change.<\/span><\/p>\n What is the number one reason for this?<\/span><\/p>\n For the past 30 years, number one best-selling author, counselor, and minister David Essel have been helping individuals and couples uncover why relationships are so terrible, and why the trend continues today.<\/span><\/p>\n Below, David shares his thoughts on what we need to do to turn the terrible statistics of our dysfunctional relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n “Have you ever heard when people say, after another <\/span>failed relationship<\/span><\/a>, “I must have a bad picker“?<\/span><\/p>\n It’s a cop-out. There’s partial truth to it, but mainly it’s a cop-out.<\/span><\/p>\n So what is the number one reason that we continue to go into dysfunctional relationships?<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s the answer, whether you want to hear it or not.<\/span><\/p>\n It has nothing to do with your “relationship picker.“<\/span><\/p>\n It has nothing to do with what many people say is that women just want to be financially supported, and men just want sex.<\/span><\/p>\n But it has everything to do with this: we refuse to slow down, look in the mirror, and look at the patterns we’ve been repeating probably since our first date, that have never served us.<\/span><\/p>\n Does that make sense?<\/span><\/p>\n The number one reason we end up in a <\/b>dysfunctional relationship<\/b>. Is us!<\/b><\/p>\n It’s not that we can’t find good men or women, or we can’t pick good men or women, or the fate of love is not on our side.<\/span><\/p>\n It simply because we’re too lazy to spend the time, effort, and money to look in the mirror and <\/span>figure out what we are doing wrong<\/span><\/a> over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n I love that statement, “you are the only common denominator in all of your failed <\/span>volatile relationships<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n It’s true, and no one wants to admit it.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch the short video by David Essel on what to do if you are in a Dysfunctional love relationship.<\/b><\/span>The reason<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n