You should not be the bigger person all the time. I don’t care. Some ppl will take advantage of your accountability and have you out here apologizing all the time to them without acknowledging the part they played in the situation and that’s a no for me.
When you’ve not been comforted after experiencing trauma, you’ll often feel like you have to prove when you’re tired or prove when you’re hurting. It’s unjust to believe you have to earn rest. When you rest now you’re telling that past self “I understand. You’re enough.”
By age 30 start to practice telling the truth 100%. Even when you want to crawl out of your skin and even when the thought of saying it makes you want to cry. The quicker you can get your nervous system adjusted to honesty, the better life you’re going to have.
The foundation of any healthy relationship is emotional intimacy.
Meaning, you regularly show interest in and care about each other's internal world.
HOW TO CREATE EMOTIONAL INTIMACY:
Growing up in a home where we don't see parents who were emotionally connected, creates "together-isolation"
Adults raised in homes with together-isolation struggle with:
-open communication
-repairing after conflict or fights
-seeing how their behavior impacts a partner
-understanding how to consider their partner's needs
-compromise
-talking to partner's before making decisions that impact their lives
-chronic independence (feels like being 'smothered' when a partner checks in or needs emotional connection)
Together-isolation is confusing because we've learned that relationships don't actually mean emotional connection. And we continue living as a 'single' person within partnership.
@Theholisticpsyc Things that people will most likely struggle with in a partnership:
- feeling undeserving of love
- fear of the abandonment
- fear to be expressive
- expectation of unrealistic levels of attention
All these fears are rooted in trauma, it's important to accept that they exist