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Your negative self-talk: It's sabotaging your marriage\u2014and you may not know how deeply. Author Ted Lowe gets real about identifying and confronting the dark side within.

"I cannot tell you the number of times, standing on the sideline with the Detroit Lions at a NFL game over 33 seasons, that we get in the fourth quarter, it\u2019s a close game, and I would have this thought: 'Our team does not believe when the game\u2019s on the line we have what it takes to win. That\u2019s the difference between winners and losers, is you don\u2019t believe it, and your self-prophecy comes true.' And we don\u2019t.

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Again, I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s the only reason we lost so many games, but I remember in 1991 when we went almost\u2014one game from the Super Bowl, you could feel the opposite. It was like, \u201cWe believe!\u201d I really believe that teams that win believe it before they actually do it, and I think it applies to marriage. "

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-- Dave Wilson

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