Cognitive Distortions in Marriage

Doug discusses how cognitive distortions can harm marriage.

Listener questions and comments:

• Teresa - I have been married for 36 years and after living with this for so long we had to get different living situations. (19:24)

 

11 Cognitive distortions

1. Filtering
2. Discounting the positive
3. Over generalization
4. Jumping to conclusions
5. Catastrophizing
6. Personalization
7. Fallacies
8. The blame game
9. “Should” statements
10. Emotional reasoning
11. Always being right