Commonly Used Marriage Helper Abbreviations and Acronyms
This is a list of abbreviations (some official and some not) to help you better navigate Marriage Helper communities:
- AP: Affair Partner
- CORE: Continuing Our Relationship Essentials (see acronyms)
- DD: Discovery Day
- EA: extramarital affair/emotional affair
- LO: Limerent Object
- MH: Marriage Helper
- OW/OM: Other Woman/Other Man
- PIES: Physical Intellectual Emotional Spiritual (see acronyms)
- RS: Reluctant Spouse, see also WS
- SA/PA: sex/porn addiction/physical affair
- SC: SMART Contact (see acronyms)
- SIL/BIL/MIL/FIL: sister/brother/mother/father in law
- SMM: Save My Marriage
- SS: Standing Spouse
- STOP: Safeguards That Offer Protection (see acronyms)
- W/H: wife/husband
- WS: Workshop or Wayward Spouse (see also RS)
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Bonus: Acronyms
CORE – aka criteria:
- C – Continuing
- O – Our
- R – Relationship
- E – Essentials
PIES – the four areas of attraction:
- P – Physical
- I – Intellectual
- E – Emotional
- S – Spiritual
PUSH Behaviors (usually cause negative emotions) –
- P – Pleading, Begging, Whining, or trying to Manipulate your spouse.
- U – Unnecessary Crying.
- S – Starting Fights.
- H – Hovering, Tracking, or Trying to Control your spouse.
SMART Contact –
- S – Stop push behaviors
- M – Manage “business” items together (aka non-emotional)
- A – Allow your spouse to start conversations with you
- R – Respond in a way that is strong, gentle, and calm
- T – Take it one day at a time
STOP – aka boundaries
- S – Safeguards
- T – That
- O – Offer
- P – Protection
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