2. Letting your past experiences shape your ongoing beliefs about love.
Both you and your partner come from different life experiences. You didn’t share the same parents, childhood experiences, living space, etc., so it is natural that both of you will have different perspectives and belief systems around the way relationships “should be.”
Based on each of your unique experiences, perspectives and beliefs, you are both right and living your own truth regarding expressing loving and being in relationship.
Somewhere in the middle of both of your perspectives and truths is the actual truth of how the two of you can best give and receive love and be in relationship.
To find that mid-point, you must both be willing to accept the other’s point of view and, from there, work at finding common ground.
Relationships becomes more challenging and taxing when we resist and refuse to accept the other’s perspectives and ways.
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