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以前贴过,再贴一遍:The Five Biggest Mistakes People Make in Relationships ( ZT) Mistake #1: Not Truly Knowing And Accepting Your Partner Do you know your partner? I mean really know him? Can you be honest with yourself about his limitations, or the ways in which he doesn't live up to your idealized vision of what the perfect partner should be? Do you accept him for who he is? the good and the bad stuff, or do you only want the parts of him that you enjoy and benefit from? To be successful in love, especially in long- term love or marriage, you'd better know who the heck you're dealing with and what they are and aren't capable of. We all know people who get into relationships and end up wanting the other person to change. Heck, we've all been these people. This is the number one mistake people make: They get into a relationship with someone and then spend most of the relationship trying to change them. But underneath this is something deeper that's the ROOT of the problem. When you find yourself living and acting this way, one of three things is going on: 1. You don't know who the man you're with truly is. 2. You don't accept and understand that the man you're with can't and won't change. 3. The thing that has to change is the way YOU deal with him. As an astrologer, I've truly come to believe that people are pretty much "pre-loaded at the factory" when it comes to their psychological make-up. We come in with a temperament and basic nature and there's only a spectrum or range within which this nature can be altered. So, say you're with a man who's "wired" to have a big temper or be depressive. The bad news is then that's the way he is and all the begging and pleading in the world (or all the therapy, for that matter) won't make him change. The hope is that he can learn tools to manage his anger or depression, but to want him to not be that way at all isn't fair to him, isn't loving him for who he truly is, and is only going to create a static and resistance between the two of you. I'll explain what I mean here by telling you about a couple that struggled with this "knowing who you're with" stuff for years. Let's call them Bob and Sally. Bob is enormously sensitive and Sally is very rational. Bob expresses his sensitivity in a not so mature way... by yelling. Astrologically, if we were to look at Bob's horoscope (i.e., his birth chart) we'd find that Bob actually has the planet of anger (Mars) in the house (i.e. section) of the chart that indicates speech, so astrologically we'd say he's a "barker." Sally, however, is not, and Sally has a negative opinion about "barking." She (rightfully) thinks it's immature of Bob and she can't help reminding Bob of his poor behavior. And guess what that does? Yep... makes him yell and bark even louder. The reality is that, while she may be right - it would be great if Bob made another choice and were more able to control himself... she's not helping the situation by wanting him to change. And this is the guy she picked, so she needs to take some responsibility here. She chose this guy and committed to this guy knowing full well he'd do a lot of barking for years to come. It was delusional of her to think it would stop, and trying to get him to stop isn't making him do so and isn't making them happy... it's only making things worse. The more he barks, the more rational she gets and the more they polarize one another. So what should they do? She needs to face the fact that she's with a barker and that he'll always bark. That way when he does she won't be surprised, making her all the more hurt. "I thought we'd gotten over this," so many people say to me when a negative behavior reappears, thus making them even more upset because they had an expectation that it's been healed and is, therefore, over. Next, Sally needs to tell Bob how his barking affects her and set a boundary. Saying, "I understand you have a hard time containing yourself. But it makes me feel unsafe and uncomfortable with you. So when you get angry, I'm going to remove myself and leave you alone." By saying this, every time Bob starts barking, instead of making him wrong for it in a critical, parental way, she can simply say, "I'm going to take a walk. Let's talk about this when you can be civil." She then can show him that she's not available when he's hostile and remove herself. Instead of trying to "change" Bob, her job is to accept him but take care of herself. Over time he'll learn that he can't get anywhere with her when he's this way, and will have to stop. Or he won't stop and they can always just deal with things once he's calmed down. Because, believe it or not, even barkers do calm down. Sally started setting these boundaries with Bob in a loving way, and to her pleasant surprise, he became much less angry much less often, and they became far happier. She was utterly stunned by how simple it was.
【在 C***1 的大作中提到】 : 以前贴过,再贴一遍:The Five Biggest Mistakes People Make in Relationships ( : ZT) : Mistake #1: Not Truly Knowing And Accepting Your : Partner : Do you know your partner? : I mean really know him? : Can you be honest with yourself about his : limitations, or the ways in which he doesn't live : up to your idealized vision of what the perfect : partner should be?