There are various reasons why people might be hesitant to admit that they're struggling in areas like marriage, parenting, and life in general.

It can be so hard to be vulnerable and open about this, and I’ve made a list of 10 common reasons. I wonder which ones might resonate with you…

Some of the things we do, we do because we have to. Other things we do because we want to. What happens when we have too much on our plate but can’t distinguish between what we want to do and what we have to do? 

When we do something wrong, we wish it could be anyone's fault but our own. Our first instinct is to get defensive and find a way to blame it on some other person or on the situation itself. It’s such a yucky feeling to have no one else to blame but ourselves, but when this is the case, then we have to figure out how to deal with that. 

It’s so hard to let some things go! Things happen to us, and we expect to move on from them…but what happens when we get stuck and can’t move on? Why do we feel stuck, and what can we do about it?