This week, we’re exploring What Conscious Partners Know: 24 and 25 They need to acknowledge each other’s “otherness”, accept each other’s differences, affirm each other’s reality, adore each other’s traits, and advocate for each other’s reality and potential. They must differentiate before they can connect, so they accept each other as an “other” and accept […]
7 Tips for Creating a Relational Culture this Fall
Here is a Fall Newsletter about Relational Culture from Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, the creators of Imago Relationship Therapy. Their goal is to shift what tends to be a “Me Generation” to a relational culture that collaborates and cooperates, a “We Generation”. Here is what they have to say: 7 Tips for Creating […]
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 […]
