3. Allowing your need to be right to be more important than your need to be happy.
One of the biggest relationship challenges of all is the need to be right.
This need causes power struggles, mistrust, and conflict in relationships. This need to be right has a negative impact on communication, setting and achieving relationship goals, cooperation with financial issues, and intimacy and sexual struggles.
If you need to be right above all else, your partner will feel judged, unimportant, insignificant, unloved and under-valued for who they are. What makes relationships work is when both partners align with the relationship, not themselves.
Your challenge is to see the value in your partners views and beliefs and to consider their points of view. This helps broaden your perspective of your partner’s experience, and deepens the meaning of the relationship.
Doing this promotes inner happiness, and shows your partner you care about them, value their perspective, and value your relationship with them.
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