In our last blogs we’ve been talking about the Spectrum of Acceptance and Core Values which lie at one end of the spectrum.
Next on the spectrum are the areas of middle ground. These are places of divergence between you and your partner that have the potential of resolution.
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Spreading Peace One Relationship at a Time
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Can This Relationship Work? Learn More About the Spectrum of Acceptance
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Core Values and The Spectrum of Acceptance
Along with a discussion of core values, it is important to talk about The Spectrum of Acceptance. When we talk about successful relationships, we describe actions and values as lying along a spectrum. At one end of this spectrum are your deal breakers; areas of meaning and value that you consider to be core to your life.
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How to Completely Eliminate Drama in Your Relationship
In this article, Michael Russer discusses a favorite topic of ours. So many people think that arguing and fighting in a relationship show how much you feel and how important the relationship is to you. They have often been raised in households where drama is the norm and has come to be accepted as showing caring and involvement.
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A Favorite Quote of Mine – Rainer Maria Rilke
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Posted in Book quote, Love, Peace, Relationship differences, Relationships, Successful Relating
This is a quote that we used on our wedding invitations. It fit with our vows perfectly!
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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Stand By Me
I’ve been listening to different versions of this song today…thought you’d enjoy this one!
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The Paradox of Separateness and Intimacy
Our time together has brought with it an experience which is a true paradox. The more we feel supported and acknowledged as separate individuals, the more we are able to open to each other. As we open and share ourselves deeply with each other, we enter a union that reveals the experience of a merged self.
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Conversations Between Phil and Maude
Maude: I feel stronger, better and more able to love others, as a result of this union of ours. Perhaps these words are too sweeping and sound like I have become lost in this shared merging. Regardless, I know that I am clear and grounded in my everyday world and that I feel like a carrier of peace.
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Some of My Favorite Virginia Satir Quotes
As some of you know, I am a big fan of Virgina Satir. As Phil and I have been working on the new book, we have been looking around for great quotes we like to intersperse with the text.
Here are a few of my favorites from Virginia Satir:
Is my past illuminating my present or contaminating it?
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Conversations between Phil and Maude
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I’ve been re reading a bunch of our blogs as we work on our new book. In the new book, we share more of how within your own relationships to have the experiences we talk about. I can see the seeds of that in this conversations we had.
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Excerpt from “Conversations with Phil and Maude”
As we work on our new book, I have been looking at some of our conversations. We have been writing back and forth to each other about relationships and our relationship for years. I’m going to share some of our “Conversations”.
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