If you feel stuck in your relationship do you know why? Could you have an unresolved relationship injury?
Relationship injuries are a feeling of “abandonment” that is accrued by an event or a pattern of behavior during a time when you felt you really needed your partner.
After we experience a relationship injury we put up a wall that keeps our partner out that says, “I will not let you in, I will not depend on you again for anything.”
We feel like it’s easier to do things on our own instead of relying on our partner.
We have found our partner to be untrustworthy or undependable. We reason, “Its easier to do life on my own that open up to this person.”
There is a natural difficulty, when we seek to heal broken trust in a relationship, because the person who broke our trust is who we turn to as the solution to our wound.
It’s challenging because we need the offender to become a healer. But when we try to talk about it with our mate a negative cycle ensues.
One of us feels attacked and avoids, while the other feels helplessly abandoned.
But if the relationship injury isn’t resolved then we risk staying in a relationship that feels emotionally shallow and disconnected.
Have you ever tried to resolve a wound, but felt stuck?
Have you felt neglected or abandoned?
How has that impacted you?
Did you know there is help resolving relationship injuries? It’s a common experience we treat for couples.
Check out our upcoming Healing Broken Trust Couples Workshop HERE>>>
