Relationship dynamics are the patterns of behavior that happen between people in the ways we relate, interact and communicate with each other. One of the most common (and most frustrating) relationship dynamics we hear about is couples who regularly feel emotionally wounded by each other. They both love each other and want to stay together. Yet, they keep hurting each other through verbal abuse, physical rejection, taking each other for granted, betraying emotional trust, or bringing up the most vulnerable topics from their partner’s past. This is such a common phenomenon that it became the focus of the famous song by Ed Sheeran "loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes" with this bizarre last line: “but its the only thing I know .” Huh? That’s clearly not love. When we say that I love someone, we tend to say a lot of things that don't make sense like darling I love you to the moon and back, u really can't love someone to the moon and back if taken logically b...
Love makes the world go round, but self-love is where it starts!