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Discover the many good reasons for having animals in your life. “Until a person has loved an animal a part of the soul remains unawakened.” ~Anatole France People who love animals know that there are many very good reasons to have animals in your life. Love and Presence Animals who have been loved . . . → Read More: Why Have Animals In Your Life How is your relationship with your partner? What are the positive and negative aspects of your relationship? What are the positive and negative aspects of your relationship? When you and your partner are both operating as loving adults, you will experience many positive results. When one or both of you are operating from your wounded self, you will experience many negative results. Since no one is able to be a loving adult all the time, it is likely that you experience a combination of positives and negatives.
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      Is your relationship stuck in a pattern of blame where you both feel like victims of the other person? One of the most common dynamics I see with the couples I work with is that each of them is convinced that if only their partner would see what he or she is doing to cause the relationship problems, their relationship would get so much better. They each see clearly what the other person is doing to cause their problems, but they are generally clueless regarding when they are doing. They truly believe that they are just reacting to the other’s unloving behavior instead of understanding that they each brought their own controlling strategies into the relationship. An example of this is a typical situation that frequently occurs between Gavin and Julie. Continue reading “If Only You Would Get What You Are Doing!” Discover the way out of choosing the wrong relationships over and over. Do you find yourself choosing a similar wrong partner over and over? This is what Laura asks about: “How can I get past the point of choosing destructive and abusive relationships over and over just because I grew up in an abusive and dysfunctional family? Is it better to just remain single and grow with God and be a good mom and not gravitate toward craziness?” Laura, there are a number of issues here that need to be addressed. Continue reading “I Keep Choosing The Wrong Partner”  Comments are closed  Relationships, Self Improvement & Personal Growth  abusive parenting, abusive relationships, choosing the wrong relationship, Inner Bonding, loving relationships, loving yourself, Margaret Paul, Parenting, Relationships, self-abandonment, spiritual connection, spiritual guidance, spirituality Discover the major cause of relationship failure and what to do about it. Most people, when asked if they want a loving relationship, will say that having a loving relationship is one of the two most important things to them – along with having work they love. Why, then, do so many relationships fail? If we want to go deeply into why relationships fail, we need to go all the way back to the parental relationship. Continue reading Why Relationships Fail If you are single, do you relate to any of these false beliefs about being in a relationship? I have discovered that many of the single people I work with have a number of false beliefs about relationships. If you are single, do you identify with any of these beliefs? People In Relationships Are . . . → Read More: Single? What Are Your False Beliefs About Relationships? |
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