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What Discussions Are Off-Limits With Your Partner? How To Have A Relationship Without the Eggshells
How can we open up to our partners completely and without fear? Ray Rivers brings the “off limits” topics front and center.
By Ray Rivers
Are there any topics in your relationship which are “off-limits” — those that you want to discuss but just can’t, because the idea of bringing them up with your partner makes you feel like you’re walking on eggshells?
That is not okay.
The single most important condition for relationship/marriage success is that the two of you can talk about absolutely anything and everything: the past (especially upsetting stuff), the future, sex, parenting, incompatibility, ex-partners, bathroom habits, hygiene, in-laws, money — without
exception. Without fear.
With love and care for how both partners feel.
If this is not the case, then don’t kid yourself: you are not yet in a mature relationship.
In life, and in relationships, it is definitely better to focus on the positive or constructive, and not dwell emotionally on the negative. But when unresolved emotional needs are present, the love that you…
