"After seventeen years
of a good marriage, taking this workshop has given us the tools for more fun,
pleasure and a Great Marriage!" - Design and Engineering Executive,
Dearborn, MI
You have the "willingness" or the motivation to strengthen your
relationship. What we could help with is making sure you both have the "ability"
or skills to do what you already want to do.
By facing the truth about what our partner needs and by facing the truth
about our own needs, we bring ourselves into the light, owning traits we've
repressed (instead of projecting them onto our partners) and energizing atrophied
parts of ourselves.
"Willingness"
can cover a multitude of sins and goodwill in a relationship is like gold. However,
if you have the "want to" without the "ability" or skills,
you can still be frustrated and eventually deplete the relationship.
As
you may already know, during the selection process, we tend to find and choose
partners who have qualities that are missing in ourselves. In my case I was
attracted to Wendy's fun loving, friendly way of life. It is probable that I
admire those qualities because I am too serious and aloof myself. Well, sure
enough, once we begin to mature our relationship and design our power struggle,
what once looked like "fun loving" and "friendly" now appears
"irresponsible" and "insincere". Did Wendy really change?
Not really, but as our relationship matures, the real work of learning how to
love an other, incompatible, human being begins. It is not easy and it not for
sissies.