We
All Deserve to Be Loved
I had a lengthy conversation recently about the normal
perception of intimate love with a doctor friend of mine. She and I agreed that
most people’s perception of love varies according to his/her upbringing and
what we all saw as a normal paradigm of love when we were children.
For instance, if you were brought up in a home where the
norm was a narcissistic mother telling you that you were wrong and judged you
constantly, you probably thought love resembled her actions and words, but that
is also had some kissing and sex attached. Most people’s first relationships
are basically an archetype of the parent with his/her least connection. We desire
to recreate the bad relationship emotionally and subconsciously to fix what’s
been broken. Of course, we realize about six months into these kind of
relationships, we have made a grave mistake. Most of us wait another few years
before we have the courage to leave the situation because of our poor
self-esteem. Even if you leave, and you didn’t learn what you did wrong in your
choosing, you will probably remake the same mistakes over and over again,
wondering why all intimate love is impossible.
I have plenty of friends who believe this untruth. For
some strange reason, personally, I never gave up hope, despite many failings
with love. I found a few gems in the mountain of coal, but mostly every
relationship had the same Anxious-Avoidant
attachment behavior tattooed all over it. I would cling to someone who had no
capacity to love me the way I—and you—deserve.
If love is NOT kind, gentle, compassionate, and honest, it
simply isn’t love. If you have to fight to be heard, you are not being loved.
If you have to grovel for fairness, you are not being loved. Intimacy that
bears the name of true love is quite special and moves you toward feeling honored.
We all deserve to have someone who treats us with respect, love, compassion,
and intimacy. Who doesn’t want to be told he or she is handsome or beautiful? I
want to hear those words every day. How often do you tell the person you live
with anything positive? Does he or she continue to tell you kind things without
any response from you? If so, make some changes or you will lose that love.
Your positive behavior will exponentially come back to you
if you have an agreement with your partner to treat each other fairly. My
partner and I rarely have to discuss who is going to do what in our
relationship. We simply pick up after each other. The person who is in the
kitchen just naturally brings the other one in the living room some of whatever
he fixes, which is also my problem with weight laughingly enough. We don’t
squabble over restaurant bills. It seems that fairness is an undercurrent that
comes with communication and trust. If you both share a bank account and are
paying the same bills, do you really have to wonder who is going to pick up the
check?
I have tried relationships with one account, two accounts,
and separate accounts. What works best in relationships is to have a joint
account for bills and an established deposit amount for each person to
contribute. The rest of your money should be yours to do with it what you want.
A caveat does exist here. If you are going to buy
something large like a car, home, boat, swimming pool, or a motor cycle, or
anything over say $500, I do
believe that married couples should consult each other. When two people try to
work at a life together—a future together, a certain amount of congruency has
to exist when it comes to finance. In fact, most marriages break up because of
money. Don’t let yours be that one loving relationship that just can’t make it
through the financial issues of relationship. This isn’t rocket science. You
have a certain amount of money to pay said bills. Two people contribute a fair
amount to make this work. The rest either goes to establish your future, or for
fun. Figure out which is important to you and discuss it. Everyone deserves to
get some reciprocity for the great work they do 40-50 hours a week.
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