I don't recall ever seeing a policy on creating sticky posts.
I just keep thinking that there are perpetual common issues posted here, and it would be nice for some of the threads which have received excellent feedback, input, insight or information pertaining to those issues to be allowed to stay at the top instead of disappearing in a few hours.
Your suggestions are good so I will borrow some and add some of my own, although I will not nominate the swinging question and leave that for someone else.
1. If your wife is not interested in sex click here.
2. If your wife is having an affair click here.
3. If your wife wants "space" click here.
4. If your wife says "I love you but I'm not IN love with you" click here.
So in this stickies, as I have wondered about this myself, what of the disagreements in techniques or solutions?
I know some things I believe are very effective simply are not believed by others, and much advice I see from others in my own opinion is, well, worse than throwing keresone on a fire.
So in what theme will these be? Starting a new open ended discussion back and forth with ideas and experiences for each topic? Or perhaps a simple page of links to threads on these subjects already being discussed?
Again, this is a good idea that I believe would be beneficial, even for good men and women to see they are not alone. Often in these relationship scenarios patterns certainly emerge, and when there are patterns, there is predictibility.
Predictibility sets the stage to turn feelings of chaos into feelings of ordered structure, even if the ordered structure is emotionally painful, at the very least the unknown can become known, and for many good people this will give them great hope and motivation to fix what needs fixing in the relationship.
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I think a Wiki is far more suitable - but don't know if it's within the scope of the TAM forums.
Maybe a FAQ forum? The initial post is the common question and some of the "greatest hits" responses to those questions could be pasted in? Or new responses could be posted.
Well we keep repeating the same ground with so many new people and there is increasingly a TAM "method" to dealing with common crises. It gets tiresome to repeat ourselves over and over and we're not progressing much as a community because of the endless repetition.
There's 15-20 or so key commenters offering constructive advice that would probably help out on a wiki.
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I think that would be a good way to get started. May mean a bit more work for the mods, as it is highly likely that such threads will become monstrous.
But ... that is the very reason why they are also necessary.
K here is my first contribution, mostly because it's what I've been dealing with and found very helpful.
I recall there being some great discussions about dominance in the Ladies Lounge circa early 09, but I couldn't find them.
I'd like to get this sticky'd in the Mens Clubhouse, and we can append the list if others have suggestions. I'll post the thread, and if it gets the thumbs up, great - if not, it will live or die by the click and reply.
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The Man Up and Nice Guy Reference
All of the following links address an array of questions that pertain to men changing their behavior with a goal of improving how they are perceived by their parnters and themselves.
If you are in a sex starved relationship, if you can't understand why your woman is pulling away despite the fact that you hold her up on a pedestal and do everything in your power to please her and make her happy, then odds are that you will either see yourself and your relationship in these threads, or you will find information that will be useful in attempting to recover it.
While recognizing that there are any number of ways that our relationships fail, these particular topics are geared towards recovering a sense of health and balance within ourselves and our failing marriages and relationships.
None of the information here is intended to address significant emotional disorders, such as anxiety, depression, addiction or other mental illness. Please seek professional help if you suspect that any of these are a factor in your relationship.
Ah ha! This is an EXCELLENT idea, as Tanelorn and I find ourselves typing the same info over and over quite often! It would be nice to have stickied topics for the ones we refer to very often (and from Chris' point of view, it would keep things "in house" too). So we will get to work ASAP on such topics for the Coping With Infidelity area and possibly some additions that may be beneficial for the Considering Divorce and Going Through Divorce areas too.
We actually have to type this out over and over again, so it's my first suggested sticky, and if you'd like you can close comments to that thread so that it's "reference only."