"We were on the brink of divorce. This workshop gave us hope (we desperately need it) and the tools to move forward." - Real-estate Broker, Nashville, TN
Divorce or "moving on" does not solve relationship problems. You can get rid of the partner, but you keep your own problems, pulling them along into the next relationship.
Our culture would have us do just that. Incompatibility is grounds for divorce, but this idea counters nature's intention. Divorce is Societies' institutionalized response to the childish wish for idealized, conflict-free relationships that never change. Incompatibility is the natural state. Learning how to grow up and manage the incompatibility and love someone different from you is the true challenge of nature and our cultures' next evolutionary adaptation.
We that teach Imago Relationship Therapy are not against divorce, many of us have experienced divorce, and undoubtedly many more will. Our challenge is to end the committed relationship intentionally, fully engaged. Our selection of our partner may have been unconscious but if we choose to end, let's do it right.
