Creating Union: The Essence of Intimate Relationship
Beyond self-responsibility lies the responsibility to give your gift. It is important to grow beyond dependence on your intimate partner for your own happiness. But it’s equally important to grow beyond simple independence and autonomy. The next stage of intimacy after personal independence has been attained is the mutual flow of gifting, or servin
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As friends, you want to treat each other fairly and give each other space and independence. As lovers, you and your woman are more than just friends. You are playing the full dynamic of masculine and feminine polarity. Wouldn’t you like your woman to be a goddess and offer you her feminine gifts? To evoke them, you must offer her your masculine gif
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A primary reason that a feminine partner leaves a relationship (or cuts off a possible relationship) is because she doesn’t trust you to lead her into the place of her heart she has been longing to go. This is the place she can’t lead herself. It is a place of surrender, trust, opening, and sacred submission. It is a place where she can completely
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