Why risk-taking and self-awareness are an essential part of any healthy relationship
accomplishments, to creating and maintaining meaningful personal relationships, risk is clearly essential, but to achieve a genuinely intimate relationship, it is indispensable.
with myself," a necessary precondition for making a proportionately deep connection with my partner? Moreover, wouldn't my partner's affections for me take on even greater personal meaning knowing they have a more comprehensive understanding of who I am?This simple but compelling insight comes from Yale psychologist Sidney Jourard, whose clever maxim is well-worth embellishing.
That is, by expressing my deepest feelings, I'm imposing a benevolently subtle but still potent pressure upon my partner that gently nudges them to do the same thing—to open themselves as well. When this"baiting" is accepted, as it often is, a deeper connection is made and intimacy flourishes.By taking the deliberate, premeditated risk of revealing my deepest feelings, I can evade the easy pitfalls and the tempting"rewards" of momentary tension reduction.
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