What Conscious Partners Know – 14 and 15 (from Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space-Between) They need to remove all forms of negativity that show up in the Space-Between; instead of picking a fight and using negativity to get what they want, they ask their partner for a Dialogue. They need to do their […]
What Conscious Partners Know (con’t)
What Conscious Partners Know (con’t) Back from England and Ireland, where we celebrated our 50th anniversary. This stuff works! We certainly wouldn’t have made it to 50 without Imago. Before going away, I had started working my way through the 25 statements Harville and Helen have written in their book Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in […]
What Conscious Partners Know: My Marriage
My Marriage: What Conscious Partners Know This will be my last blog until May. My wife and I are heading to Europe for a month to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. As I tell the couples that come to my office, Imago Relationship Therapy is not just theory for me, it is very personal. Our […]
What Conscious Partners Know (con’t)
Diving back in What Conscious Partners Know from Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt’s Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space-Between Number 9, 10, and 11 They come together to participate in the sometimes painful, sometimes joyful dance of romantic partnership, and they know why. That anxiety gets aroused between them. How to take steps […]
What Conscious Partners Know (con’t)
What Conscious Partners Know (con’t) Numbers 6-8 from Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space-Between They have complimentary defenses that are natural, and they accept that fact about each other, without judgment. They can reconstruct the memory their partner has of them by expressing new behaviours with intensity. They are different from each other and […]
What Conscious Partners Know
Let’s explore what conscious partners know. I would characterize most relationships, certainly ours was before we knew about Imago Relationship Therapy. It is described as unconscious, old brain, and reactive. For example, if my partner came on too strong, my reactive response was to shut down. If I step back and look at that response, […]
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