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Chap. 6 (con’t) Mechanics of the Power Struggle

The last part of Chapter 6 The Imago; the Search for Original Connecting deals with what happens between partners when they are locked in the power struggle. Our brain has a negativity bias. This makes sense if you think of our history as humans. For thousands of years, our primal brain was on the lookout […]

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Chap. 6 (con’t): 3 Stages of Relationships

In intimate relationships, we call the 3 stages: Romantic love, The Power Struggle, and Adaptation/Resolution. The first 2 are covered in the rest of this chapter and the adaptation/resolution stage will be examined in Chapter 7. Here is something I never knew before.  “All relationships, like life, go through stages. Intimate relationships and other significant […]

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Chapter 6 con’t: An Imago Match

Let’s continue our discussion with the Imago Match, from last’s week’s blog. Here is an interesting question for you. “What leads us to choose that one person (or maybe two or three or four) to spend our lives with out of the countless others we could have chosen?” (p.129) Not a bad question really! Why […]

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Relationship Issues

What Conscious Partners Know – 14 & 15

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 […]

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