The Essence of a Conscious Partnership If Harville Hendrix, and Helen LaKelly Hunt were to take all the insights they’ve gained about love relationships in the past thirty years and reduce them to their essence, we would summarize them in the following five sentences. Accept the reality that your partner is not you. Be an […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 10: Imago
Imago Relationship Therapy A key insight is Imago Relationship Therapy. Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, had all those years ago was that the unconscious image a child forms of their primary caretakers (the Imago which is the Latin word for image) – of the person who loves me, who takes care of […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 9
The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman wrote this book over 20 years ago but the concepts still make a lot of sense. He likened the way we receive and give love to languages. For example, if I was speaking English but my primary language was French, Italian, German, or Spanish it would make it harder […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 8
Anything Negative by Appointment Only Think about the negative from your old brain point of view. If I don’t know when the attack is coming or where the arrow is coming from, for sure I will have my armour on. It is hard to be intimate when you are both clanking around the same house […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 7
Have Fun and Celebrate I’m limiting fun here to actions that are high energy, physical, and end up in a belly laugh. My experience is that we tend to do this more with our kids, but not so much with our partners. It is easier to play fight, wrestle, have water balloon fights, or tickle […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 6
Amplify the Positives On Day 1, I introduced the first holiday relationship tip in this series, the importance of safety in any committed relationship. One way to increase safety is to increase pleasure. Now you would think that is a fairly obvious equation, safety equals pleasure, but there is a part of our culture that […]
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