From Making Marriage Simple by Harville Hendrix Harville begins this chapter with: “Hopefully by now you realize that the conflict you’re experiencing is not only normal, but inevitable and even valuable. Don’t try to avoid it. Don’t try to deny it. Don’t run away from it, or wish it away. Stay with it, and you’ll […]
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 […]
