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Relationship Expectations
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The Givens of Relationships: Antidotes to Unrealistic Expectations. This should be required reading David Richo, PhD, for everyone dating, considering is a therapist and author who leads marriage and married. It is, popular workwithout a doubt, the best shops on personal and spiritual thing I have seen on the growth. He comsubject. David Richo bines Jungian, poetic, and mythic deserves a medal for perspectives in his this. -Patrick ONeill work with the
intention of integrating the psychological and the spiritual.
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that are just to show me how much I love myself. I go on dates with me. I go on long bike rides, I row boats, I bake cookies, I wear clothes that make me feel good, I am learning to play ukulele, I snuggle with my rabbits, I read books in sunbeams, I make zines and stencils, I take long showers, . I do not do anything solely because I feel obligated to do it. I treat myself the way I want to treat others. I treat myself with caring, patience, and with a conscious desire to be kind and respectful. My life is one giant self-care ritual. Its wonderful
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phases: intimacy, affection, sexual interest/energy, commitment to children and family, compatibility, self-disclosure.
6What creates
for you to pursue individual choices and to be compassionately attentive to any threat your partner may feel.
10No
expectations are valid and not even agreements are always reliable.
12You are
happy, keep you fascinated, love you as your favorite parent did, or give you the love you missed from your parents.
what they really want, ask for what they really want, or show what they really feel.
16Most people avoid or fear intimacy, consistent honesty, intense feelings, and uninhibited joy.
18Letting go
19Jealousy and possessiveness, though not desirable, are normal human feelings.
20Goodbye is rarely
said clearly; most people ease away wordlessly and avoid full confrontation
ends.
memories, regrets, the wish for revenge, and a recurrent sense of loss far, far to outlast the ending of a relationship.
partners) parents is a phantom, but active, presence at the beginning, middle or ending of your relationship.
25The powerful appeal of someone new may tell you more about your own neediness than about the charms of the other person.