The Three Options According to The Serenity Prayer

In any frustrating situation we can take it serenely, try to change it courageously or leave it.

• Taking it means ignoring the problem because you’re invested in the relationship.
• Trying to change it means focusing on the problem because you’re invested in the relationship.
• Leaving means neither ignoring or focusing on the problem but divesting yourself of the relationship.

Sometimes sustainable serenity just ain’t happening and instead couples enter a period of unpredictable and amplifying oscillation, efforts to achive the serenity to accept, whipsawing with courage to try to change each other.