“What can I expect from my spouse?”  That was the lead question.  Because over and over, her expectations had not been met.

“Expectations,” I told her, “can wreck your marriage.”

“Which expectations?”, she asked.

I noted, “Any.”

But shouldn’t you have expectations?  Shouldn’t you be able to expect things from your spouse?

Let me ask you question:  How’s that going so far?

Some expectations are explicit.  Others are implicit.  Some are internal.  Others are external.

And generally, expectations fail.

That same person said, “So I should just expect my spouse to do nothing, is that right?”  I noted that she just changed to another expectation.  But still, it was an expectation.  And expectations cause problems.  Negative or positive.  They still cause problems. 

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