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The other important relationship trap to avoid is projecting your problems onto others. Often times, when we suffer from an individual problem, we do not recognize it as such. Instead, we simply blame another person for our problems. For instance, if you are depressed because of the loss of family member, you may blame your spouse for your depression because he or she is not supporting you and your feelings instead of the underlying feeling of simply missing your family member. This kind of projecting is very dangerous in relationships because it perpetuates a lie to ourselves.
If you find yourself continuously participating in this kind of projection, consider individual therapy. Your therapist will be able to help you recognize when you are falling into this kind of projection thought pattern and will help you learn valuable strategies to turn off this negative projection thinking. If you and your spouse are seeing a couple's therapist, consider asking him or her to see you on an individual basis for a few sessions. This will give your couple's therapist even more insight into you.
Another kind of projection that is very common in dysfunctional relationships today is to believe that brining another life into your dysfunctional relationship will solve the problems you are having. Many women tend to think that if they get pregnant and give their husbands a child, all of their relationship problems will disappear.
Though this may seem like the case for a few months after the child is born; you will soon realize that your problems have not disappeared, they have simply been put on the back burner while you and your husband deal with the stress and worry that comes with a new baby. Eventually, however, your original relationship problems will rear their ugly heads and then you will soon discover that your already strained relationship with your spouse is even more strained with the added stress and responsibilities that come with a new child.
To a lesser extent, this second kind of projection can also occur when one of the people involved in the relationship decided to get a pet. Especially if the pet is young, there will be added stress in the relationship in the beginning. And again, it will appear at first that your original problems have disappeared with the excitement and stress of having a new puppy or kitten in your household, but eventually you will end up with just more problems that you started with.
Besides ending up with even more relationship issues, bringing any kind of new life into a dysfunctional relationship as a “bandage” for your underlying relationship problems is an incredibly selfish thing to do. The new life that you bring into the relationship will not have an enjoyable existence and neither will you or your significant other.
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