What they don’t tell you in fairy tales is that every
Prince Charming has his own agenda – and it doesn’t match yours. Period. (Usually he’s trying to get away from
controlling parents.)
You don’t actually need a Prince Charming to revive
you. You can do it perfectly well for
yourself. Hearts don’t shatter so badly
that they cannot become whole again
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A woman wrote to me this week, saying she could not her
abusive ex-partner out of her head. Specifically, she had a couple of questions for me:
“1. Are abusers aware of what they are doing? Is
it a behaviour that will continue
in their next relationship ?
2.
in an […]
This inquiry came from a reader this week. She then wrote: “Bad question. I know, everyone is different.”
She is right, of course. Everyone is different. But abusive relationships are all pretty much the same.
If I had a dollar for every woman who has ever written to
me saying: “I didn’t know you’d been living with my husband/partner”, it would
be a nice little earner – sadly.
This week I was working with a client who knew the answers
to her difficulties as well as I did. At least, she kept agreeing with me and saying that she already knew the
things I was telling her. I had no
doubt that she did. She has been in the
personal development world for some years. But for all that she was desperately
unhappy.
You see, what she knew did not affect what she felt.
Why?
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