FAULTERING RELATIONSHIPS: Should I Stay or Should I Go? 

As we collect complaints against a partner, the case for separating grows. We progressively disregard our deficits and fill the space between us and our partner with shadow. Aggrieved kindness is accrued to us and endless failure to the other. If we can constellate an observing attitude, we may discover that the tension between engulfment and abandonment has possessed the relationship, eviscerating all sense of safety. More commonly, couples are surprised by the intensity of changing stages. Moving from passion and bonding to parenting and empty nests requires relational awareness and a vision of the evolving psyche. It tasks us with thoughtful engagement and conscious suffering. When we shift from projecting our disowned qualities to courageous self-confrontation, we place the point of transformation within us. This liberates the partner from carrying our own inner work and frees the relationship to finally rest in mutual support. In our darker moments, this may seem impossible, but the resilience of love can surprise us.
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