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During the time our ancestors were hunters and gatherers, and even more recently as the interiors of many of the industrialized countries were beings settled, men would go away often for days at a time and women would be at home caring for the home. During those times, men would gain the emotional support they needed with the men they travelled or worked with, and women would find the emotional support with other women.
Today, there is a growing expectation that the couple will provide each other with their main supply of emotional support. Women in particular may feel quite guilty if they seek ways to have their emotional tank filled up by others or other things other than their family.
Those in successful relationships do not see their partner as their main source of emotional support. Instead, their partner may only provide them with a ?top up? supply of emotional energy, the rest is provided by self-care activities like spending time with friends or doing things that are particularly enjoyed, with or without the partner.
Dropping the expectation that your partner will provide you with emotional support release them to be themselves. This will greatly influence the relationship. It reduces the need for your partner to feel they have to be perfect or act perfectly in order to please you. No one can be perfect all the time, and allowing yourself to be yourself and do the things that you enjoy doing and being around other people besides your partner will enhance the relationship.
This self-care and looking after our own emotional needs rather than putting an unnecessary burden on someone else, actually has the opposite effect to what most people imagine. Hormones are raised by these ?feel good? activities. This creates a mutual desire to be with your partner and to share intimacy with them.
The increased hormonal levels create feelings of contentment with the relationship and appreciation for the relationship. It becomes so much easier for each partner to help the other feel good about themselves and the relationship, when neither feels that that the relationship is dependent on them giving all the time. Coming together can be a celebration of what you share together.
It is essential that neither member of the couple have expectations that their partner will act just like them. The differences in what makes a man a man and a woman a woman are so real, it is both unfair and completely unreasonable to expect your partner to think and act as you do in a situation. Spending time with others of your own gender enables you to talk as male-to-male or female to female in appropriate ways. This is not to devalue the need for communication between you and your partner; it just takes the pressure away from the expectations that often drive our relationships apart.
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