Healing with your partner

Forgiveness is essential in any healthy relationship. Here's why: Emotional Healing: Forgiveness can help heal emotional wounds and improve communication. Empathy: Forgiveness can help you be more...

Forgiveness is the gift you give your partner and yourself allowing wounds to heal and love to bloom again

Changing your words will change your relationship. "You-statements" show no ownership of emotions but rather blame, accuse and assume the receiver. "You-statements" make your partner feel defensive and resentful. An "I-statememts" on the other hand, is to express how you feel inside, "I-statements" reduce hostility and defensiveness. When using "I-statements" you take responsibility for the part you played in the disagreement and display the openness for deep listening and resolution.

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These are just a few key characteristics to knowing whether you can build a healthy relationship with your partner or someone you’re interested in. While love and attraction are important, a strong relationship requires more. Now, if you possess these qualities, or if you’re struggling with a few, like self-awareness, but both you and your partner are willing to grow, that’s okay. We are human, and we all carry past experiences (trauma) that may not be fully healed. The key is a…

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