Today more couples than ever identify as life partners.
The term points to the fact that your significant other shares a proportional
part of your life. They are not your whole life, otherwise the bond might be
called wholenership rather than partnership! In relationship,
we share part of our lives, we share part of our day. We each do our part.
Intimate sharing is reciprocal, appropriate and measured.
To know and be known doesn't mean sharing everything there is to know. In
fact, too much information can easily overwhelm a relationship as much as not
enough sharing causes emotional distance. Taking part is both quantitative
and qualitative -- it involves real time spent together in a healthy
way.
You might have experienced unhealthy models of 'being part
of' a relationship in the past, such as in your family of origin. Sometimes
parents didn't do their part, or they didn't allow anyone else's part. What
was your model for being part of something, for being in a partnership? What
is your ideal partnership today, and how do you communicate your innermost
relational values?
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