16th March 2016

By Jack Adam Weber

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

For many, intimate relationship is not easy, at all. For all the excitement of attraction and attachment, we also get stirred up, hurt, neurotic, frustrated, stressed, and challenged to the max. Whether it’s longing, disagreements, misunderstandings, or simply our own unhealed emotions surfacing, it’s helpful to have some tools to navigate the tricky and tempestuous turns of deeply loving and being loved by another human being.

I hope these suggestions and invitations help you; please add any thoughts you can offer in the ‘comments’ section below, or join the conversation on Facebook.

When the Shit Hits the Fan…

1) Practice Vulnerability:

Defensiveness creates blocks against communication and honesty. What we hold in secret hinders our path of loving. Being vulnerable to hear what is being communicated allows process and clearing to happen in communication, which frees up our hearts once again for intimacy and the experience of feel-good connection.

We all get hurt in love, sometime. Learning to accept the inevitable pain that comes with loving someone else, and being loved by them, helps us accept reality and one another, as well as the good that comes with the bad. Defending against difficult and painful truths makes everything worse. Vulnerably and courageously opening to one another and our respective aches makes it better.

CONTINUE READING:

Previous articles by Jack Adam Weber:

• The Modern Shaman: Fierce Love at the Frontier of Madness
• When We Love an Addict – Courage and the Limits of Compassion
• Arrogance in Relationships: How to Deal With and Heal It
• 11 Reasons Why Hippies (Not Psychos) Should Rule the World
• The Monsanto Years: Singer Neil Young Rips Into GMOs, Big Biz and Conformity
• ReVOLUTION: When Enough is Enough
• Sex – Truth and Dare, Pleasure and Purpose
• Relationships: The Costs of Staying When We Should Leave
• Yin Yang — Ancient Wisdom for Personal and Planetary Transformation
• Heartbreak – Loving Ourselves Through Difficult Times
• Sacred Space – What Is It and Why Do We Need It?

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