The
Couples
Way
“To my Beloved:
Cross the bridge to my world. Come with curiosity and an open heart; see me anew. Come as if this is the first time.
Come without the past. This is all I need and all I’ve ever wanted.
Come visit me here across the bridge.”
Every relationship eventually hits the same wall. It is the moment when our deepest most vulnerable wound is activated by our beloved. It is the moment when reactiveness enters. Our protective parts pick up the weapons and tools they learned long ago and along the way and start to engage in protecting our hearts. When couples begin experiencing these new moments with each other it is confusing and disappointing. The redeemer we were hoping for now becomes the enemy we most dreaded. The relationship begins a cycle of being derailed in the same places over and over again. This is all normal and predictable.
It is at this point that relationship offers us the most important gift of all. The opportunity to understand and explore our own woundedness; understand it and heal it. When we can do this in the container of the relationship we open ourselves not only to deep individual healing but to profound love. It is a warriors jouney.