How To Really Love The One You’re With
By Larry James
Introduction
I have become an astute observer of who I have been in past love relationships. I do not like what I have seen.
Underneath all conflict lies an unforgiving thought. I believe that forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means of correcting my misperceptions. Perception is a mirror, not a fact.
I have forgiven myself for not being who I needed to be for my former love partners. I now let go of whatever I think my former love partners may have done to me, and what I think I may have done to them. I now release the pain of past relationship. I am now complete with forgiveness in my former relationships.
I am committed to learn from the mistakes of the past, do more if what I have learned from them and to forever commit to intentionally stay focused on what needs to be done in future love relationships on a moment-to-moment basis.
It would never be my intention to drag the stuff of past relationships into a future love relationship. And it is difficult not to. Old habits are difficult to break. I am committed to initiate new behaviors consistent with my desire to grow into a healthy love relationship. I want the kind of love relationship that has each of us exercise responsibility for our individual experience of the other. Not to do so will have the cycle of past mistakes repeat itself. The choices are: be responsible or leave the relationship. I want a love relationship with understanding; one that finds us committed to always be working together even when it feels like we don’t want to.
Clarity of purpose is now a high priority. I have decided that I can no longer tolerate being unclear about what I want in a healthy love relationship.
I have a new intention, that is, to use these words as guidelines for reinventing my future love relationship beginning now! How To Really Love The One You’re With is a truthful portrayal of the only kind of love relationship I believe to be worthy of pursuit: one of unconditional love.
Who I am is someone who will always explore new and better ways of being in a relationship. I am committed to a love relationship that works for both love partners. Part of the problem in past relationships was that I never clearly defined what I wanted from the relationship or what I was willing to commit to in the relationship. No longer.
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