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Category Archives: Relationships

Relationships offer us our greatest challenge and most powerful arena for emotional and spiritual growth. No matter how much inner work we have done individually, our control issues coming from our fears of rejection and engulfment will surface in our relationships when there is conflict.

“I Fall Too Hard In Love”

Do you find yourself getting hurt over and over in relationships? Discover why. Do you find yourself falling hard for someone and then ending up feeling rejected and not good enough when it ends? This is the problem that Sabrina is having: “Why do I fall so hard for men? How can I get over...

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“I Lose My Cool In Relationships.”

Do you find that as soon as you really like someone – whether as a friend or as a partner – you ‘lose your cool?’ Relationships offer us more opportunities for personal growth than just about anything else in life. But sometime the opportunities are very challenging! For example, Larry asks: “Whenever I feel a...

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Can I Change A Narcissist?

Sometimes we are clueless regarding the subtle ways we are trying to control, while being very aware of a partner’s controlling behavior. Tara asked me the following question: “Dear Dr. Paul, How do you reach your spouse if they are narcissistic and shut down emotionally? He does not say anything when I explain inner bonding,...

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“How Can I Get Him To Stop Hurting Me?”

Are you aware of the system you have created with your partner that may be causing you pain? I have worked with couples for 44 years, and one thing I can tell you for sure: relationships are a system, and each partner has an equal part of the system. People come together at their common...

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Addiction to Getting Others To Change

Are you focusing on getting your partner to change to avoid a painful choice that you might need to make? If you find yourself often focused on healing others or hoping you can get others to change, it is likely that you don’t think of this as an addiction. I define an addiction as anything...

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