Many partners attempt to bond with wine, candles, or lingerie, only to find their time together feeling flat, empty, and passionless. Now is the time to discover what really creates bonding, intimacy, and passion with your partner.
Intimacy
A journalist interviewed me regarding intimacy in relationships. One of her questions was, “What are some of the easy ways in which husband and wife can bond – without wine, candles, and expensive lingerie?”
Easy ways… Well, it depends on what you mean by easy!
Bonding has nothing to do with wine, candles, and expensive lingerie. It has to do with INTENT. In any given moment we are in one of two possible intents: One, the intent to have control over getting love and avoiding pain, or two, the intent to learn about being loving to ourselves and to others.
Virtually, all of us have learned many ways of trying to have control over getting love and avoiding pain. We learned these protective behaviors when we were children, and as adults we unconsciously continue these learned controlling behaviors, such as anger, criticism, withdrawal, resistance, or compliance.
For most people, these protective, controlling behaviors have become automatic and habitual. As soon as any fear is triggered, we automatically protect against the fear by arguing, blaming, attacking, judging, shutting down, resisting, or giving in. In relationships, the fears of rejection
and engulfment – of losing the other or losing ourselves – generally underlie the reasoning behind our protective behavior.
In a relationship, if one or both partners are closed, protected, or controlling, then they cannot emotionally connect with one another. No matter how much time they spend together with wine, candles, or expensive lingerie, the connection will not be there when one or both are closed and protected.
Ironically, when the intent is to get love or avoid pain, what we create is a lack of love and much pain. Our intent to control brings about the very things we are trying to avoid with our
controlling behavior. Our personal intent is what we do have control over. We do not have control over another’s intent to be open and loving, but we do have control over our own intent to be open to learning about what it means to be loving ourselves and to others.
However, it takes a mutual intent to learn in order for partners to emotionally bond.
If both partners are open to learning, then they will be emotionally available to each other and can bond with a touch, a smile, or a kind word. Bonding has to do with the energy between the two, not with anything external like attractive burning wax, and the energy comes from their intent. A controlling intent creates a heavy, dark, hard, closed-hearted energy, while the open-to-learning intent creates a light, soft, open-hearted energy. Catch the difference!
Relationship Challenges
The big challenge in relationships is to stay open to learning about loving. Since we automatically and unconsciously revert to our protective, controlling behavior in the face of fear, being open to learning needs to be a conscious decision. Developing the ability to make a conscious choice regarding your intent is a learning process.
The hallmark of higher consciousness is being able to choose your intent each and every moment, even in the face of fear. When relationship partners are both able to reliably choose to be open to learning about loving themselves and each other, they create a sweet and safe environment for their love to flourish. Then wine, candles, vacations, and lingerie can enhance their experience with each other – the icing on the cake.
Easy ways to bond?
Staying conscious and open to learning is not easy! The concept is simple, but doing it is far from it. Yet devoting yourself to learning to stay open to learning in the face of fear and adversity may be the most fulfilling and rewarding experience in your life!
>>>Make emotional deposits each day using what I call the ‘Secret Currency’ & watch how fast it strengthens your bond.<<<
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