12 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER E very so often, couples have to engage in what my lawyer friend (let's call him John, since that's his name) labels “difficult conversations,” and there's surely no more difficult conversation than telling your spouse you're taking a second (or third, or fourth) ski trip this winter.
“In any relationship,” says our marriage counsellor Marjorie Blinkist, “a couple's needs and wants don't always align.” In those situations, she recommends staging the room with potted plants, a water feature or two, coffee table books on conflict resolution and relaxing music such as “Eye of the Tiger.” “Then,” she says, “sit your spouse down, tell them you're going skiing, and run like hell.”
Allowing for the possibility that Marjorie is nuts, we suggest a few other approaches,…
