Stubborn as a mule - you are - with your Sex Addiction

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Let's continue our look at 'Repairing the damaged couples
relationship, post Sex Addiction'.


Does that image of the mules describe your relationship? of
course not you, but your partner! 


Each trying to get their needs met. Those Core Emotional Needs.
Remember that Core Emotional Needs are not negotiable. They want
to be met and Fight/Flight/ Freeze will play out where they have
been depleted for some time. (This dynamic is all so unconscious
and not readily visible).


Moving in one direction to get Core Emotional Needs met, without
the partner, will put tremendous strain on the relationship.
Pressure increases. Conflict is apparent.


Interestingly, the other partner may not be pulling back - as the
image seems to depict. They may just be digging in just to avoid
the force of the pull taking them in a direction that they do not
yet want to go!


Tension in the relationship increases. Annoyance is apparent;
hostility is in the air; conflict is palpable. Yet the process is
working away in the unconscious and neither party may fully
understand what is going on.


Get some help from The Kairos Centre. See what you cannot see.
Begin to change that which you begin to better understand.


Get some help from The Kairos Centre. See what you cannot see.
Begin to change that which you begin to better understand.


Help someone access the Recovery Programme:
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Gary McFarlane (BA, LLM, Dip, Certs), Accredited EMDR
Practitioner.


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