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 (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, […]
