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Relational Growth Challenge: Embrace the Limits

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Despite the challenges of relationships, the high divorce rate, the celebrities we see marrying in one edition of a magazine and separating in the next, we are pulled toward committed partnership, most commonly with a single, primary beloved. We seek to deeply know another and to be deeply known within a framework flexible enough to allow for change and reliable enough to create continuity. This container has the potential to establish a supportive limit, inhibiting our tendencies to avoid, escape, deny or sugarcoat unpleasant realities about ourselves, the impact of our words and actions, and the growing-pains still required for us realize our full relational potential. We are challenged to take in and understand another person's reality, feelings, experiences and needs without diminishing our own reality, feelings, experiences and needs.

Often, the marital limits we push up against are invitations to look at something differently. Where is there an experience of impoverishment or scarcity in your relationship? How could you see this limit differently - as a challenge or an invitation to know your desires more intimately or to cultivate a deeper connection with your own truth?

 
 
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