Give Your Dying Relationship the CPR It Needs

If your relationship is slowly dying, it’s time to stop watching it happen and start taking action to save it.

Wendy Miller
10 min readFeb 11, 2020

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Some relationships end in a great explosion. But many slowly wither away, and even when both partners know it’s happening, they don’t always know what to do to stop it. They watch the relationship slip through their fingers because they simply aren’t sure how to turn it around.

Sometimes it’s meant to end. You loved each other and had a beautiful relationship, but it served its purpose and now it’s time to move on. But what if you don’t think that’s the case? What if you still love your partner, and you know they still love you, but you just don’t know what to do to revive the relationship?

It doesn’t have to be the end. There are lots of things you can do to turn the dying gasps of your relationship into the smooth, deep breaths of a healthy relationship.

If you and your partner are both willing to try, here are nine things you can do to rekindle a dying relationship.

Talk about it and be honest

This is the first step. Many times, both partners know the relationship is in trouble but neither one verbally acknowledges it to the other. This…

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Wendy Miller
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