leadership527 -> RE: Opinions on release (4/26/2010 8:58:34 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP Did you do it when you hadn't seen her in person for months and over a computer or was it in person? ... The ability to say "let's talk about this tomorrow when we're calmer and now just go to bed holding each other" changes things enormously. No argument there Des. I have no doubts that the long-term stable nature of our relationship makes a lot of such things way easier to work through. More to the point, I can say to Carol, "I'm not sure you're cut out to be a slave" and it carries absolutely no rejection of her as a person or as the woman I love. In her ears, that pretty much translates to, "I love you so much that I'm OK with you even if you're not the thing that pleases me the most." Which, in turn, becomes a rallying point in her head, eg: "I refuse to fail at being whatever it is that he wants." All that being said, life hands us tough challenges sometimes. I need my partner to be able to stand up and be counted when the going gets tough. If I said to Carol the most hurtful thing I can think of, "I don't love you anymore." I would fully expect her to ... after a moment of reeling in shock... collect herself and say something like, "OK, what can I do to help get that back again?" While the whole "woe is me" routine would be perfectly justified in that scenario, it would also do nothing but hasten the divorce. I need my partner to be made of sterner stuff than that. And you know what the utterly most important time of ALL is for her to be "made of sterner stuff"? It's when my side of the relationship is shaky. If ever there was a time to stand and be counted... that'd be it. Life hands you hurdles. You don't get to measure them and say, "Sorry that's too high". You either jump them or fall. Any partner I had any interest in would be able to jump.
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