Celebrating the Difference
“We don’t seem to be busy with or involved in wanting our partner to be anything other than who and what they are. If you can actually be with another person, without wanting them to change, or being busy in any way to alter them, then amazing things become possible.
“For this magic to work, you have to actually be suited to the other. There has to be a match, a balance of energy between you. At the same time, there is a joy of being with someone who is innately different than you — someone who is not you, but another.”
Secrets of a Successful Relationship Revealed, p.21
I think the passage is both right as well as wrong actually.
There’s never an intention to change my wife, Pam however there’s always a desire to grow and change together as we both move through life’s experiences and flow with change.
There’s a subtle difference there.
Hope the book is going well for you guys too. Got a copy and need time to get to reading it. Hopefully the Xmas break will allow that.
Cheers and have an awesome holiday
Martin and Pam