I have organized some previous shorts that are gut-punches of various relationship hard truths.
I also believe in stress-testing intimacy. I have made a short list of hard truths:
- You are only as reliable as the smallest thing that makes you lose your temper.
- If YOU have no plan, why would anybody follow you?
- 99% committed means 100% NOT committed.
- Using Porn is emotional and mental cheating.
- A person's 'potential' is only your FANTASY of them. If they don't want what you want for them, that is the purest example of your disconnected values. It is a subtle way we make a 'condition' around our affection for them.
- If you decide a part of you is unlovable, then entire relationships will dance around THOSE parts of you being hidden and waiting to destroy something. The longer you wait, the more it may feel like a betrayal to share. The sooner we lay ourselves bare is how we give people a chance to not flinch at our supposed 'unlovable' parts and heal a part we have committed to hating. You are only as sick as your secrets. Love can heal self-hate. (See Foreboding Joy )
What hard truth about love and relationships would you add?