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Individuals & Couples Counseling in Boca Raton
As part of my professional training, I spent many years studying psychoanalytic theory and technique. In short, my job was to help my clients examine past relationships for the purpose of understanding their present ones. The goal of the therapy was to develop Self-awareness.
After years of clinical work helping people to develop insight into them-selves, I gradually began to realize that while my training offered me a wealth of information about Self -development, it did not teach me about the complex nature of commitment, collaboration and the challenges of human partnerships.
My understanding of how two well-defined individuals come together and achieve the true intimacy they desperately want was further broadened after many additional years of study and training in various environments.
Your Self, Your Partner
Let’s begin with the obvious; a relationship is only as good as the people in it. If you enter into a romantic partnership with a partially defined Self, chances are excellent that you will look to your partner to make you feel whole- a recipe for disaster and a poor excuse for being in a relationship. It is not your partner’s responsibility to fill you up and make you happy. Each of you must do that for yourselves.
Once you have made a deep commitment to love and nurture your Self and your willingness to grow, you may be wondering – as I did at the end of my psychoanalytic training – what role you play in contributing to a healthy partnership?
In order to have a true intimacy, you must not only be responsible for your Self, but also do everything you can to help your partner grow to their optimum potential. Your partner is a unique individual, different from you, and your role is to support whatever inspires them, not for your benefit but for theirs. You must encourage their need for self-reliance as you do your own.
Get more at http://drdeborahhecker.com/what-have-you-done-for-your-partner-lately/
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