You can heal the past by being present for each other. Helen is writing this chapter, piggybacking on Chapter 3 Conflict Is Growth Trying to Happen. She begins: “Now, finally (drum roll, please), we get to the heart of what seems to be part of the universal mystery. There is an amazing thing that happens […]
Conflict is Growth Trying to Happen
When does conflict happen? If, as we said in Chapter 1, Romantic Love is a trick, and Chapter 2 tells us that incompatibility is grounds for marriage, then inevitably there will be conflict in any intimate relationship. Harville, who is writing this chapter, introduces it with this: “Hopefully by now, you realize that the conflict […]
Incompatibility is Grounds for Marriage
In our culture, generally, that statement reads “Incompatibility is grounds for divorce”. Harville, who is writing this chapter, flips it upside down. Yes, in the romantic love phase of a relationship, it tends to be the things two people have in common that attracts them together and that makes for a strong bond. He goes […]
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