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Broken Behaviours: Tolerating Bad Treatment Isn’t Loving · Doing Marriage Well

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  Doing Marriage Well for June 8, 2026 Broken Behaviors Tolerating Bad Treatment
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  Isn't Loving I really liked the image I made for last Wednesday's post.
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  It showed a man walking out of the room because his wife would say ugly things to or about him.
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  The man is making a good choice. He is choosing not to subject himself to behavior
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  that is unloving at best and possibly abusive.
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  He doesn't challenge what his wife is doing or start a fight. He just leaves.
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  Doing this regularly would teach his wife that he will not tolerate such behavior.
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  I imagine, because of the wife's reaction by saying, hey, I'm not done telling
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  you why you're stupid, that the man is doing something different than usual.
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  He has typically taken her verbal assault. Now he is doing something new.
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  He had a broken behavior, which he is replacing with a healthier choice.
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  So this week, let's talk about broken behaviors and how we stop doing them.
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  A broken behavior is more than something that doesn't work.
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  It's accepting something we should not accept. It's putting up with something you don't deserve.
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  It's allowing your spouse to treat you badly and just taking it.
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  Some of these broken behaviors are things we learned in childhood.
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  Either we had to accept being treated badly because we had no choice,
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  or we watched one of our parents do it to the other and learned that's how it's done.
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  Other broken behaviors develop as the marriage progresses. Usually they are
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  minor at first, slowly getting worse and worse.
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  Please notice that I am saying the victim in these circumstances is the one
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  with the broken behavior.
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  Obviously, their spouse is
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  acting badly, but the issue we are examining is their acceptance of that.
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  Allowing wrong treatment without a word is on you. It's your broken behavior,
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  and that means you have the power to choose to end it, to stop putting up with what your spouse does.
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  One way to do that, as shown in the image, is to walk away.
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  Decide you will not be treated that way and will leave when it starts.
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  This is Paul, and ignoring bad behavior is not doing marriage well.