The first thing that I want to present to you is about the way of connecting. The framework in our relationship is such: Take your hands and slowly bring them together so that your palms and fingers are aligned. Imagine that your hands are just like two partners who meet and create their relationship. Partner 1 and Partner 2 meet in all their authenticity, as they are. They meet with their conscious beliefs, values, notions, needs and desires. But they also meet with a very unconscious dynamic that each of us carries within us: the things they have suppressed, unacknowledged pains, our unacknowledged and unresolved fears, the doubts and critiques of the shadow side within us that also exist in our unconscious dynamics. The traumas and misunderstandings that have occurred in early childhood and this whole palette of colors in our mental dynamic we confront with our partners. There will be many areas in which our partners will serve as a resource to us. They will be our equals and together we will seek joy and a common purpose. But there will also be many areas where we will have to work on our divergences, different perspectives and aspirations, to work on our fears together.

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