Differentiation in Marriage

Have you been trying to do marriage, but find what you do isn’t working? Do you follow what the experts and church leaders teach to make your spouse happy, only to find you lose yourself in the process?

Amazingly, a good marriage is built on really taking care of and loving yourself. Once you realize what this looks like and how you’ve been doing it all wrong, you can truly find yourself again - or for the first time; and find lasting happiness for yourself and in marriage.

Topics covered:

1. Understand enmeshment

   The analogy of two trees helps you see where you “stand” in your marriage. See a real-life example of the enmeshment-happiness cycle. You’ll consider “Sketchy Phrases” that we consider “loving” dialogue.

2. Decipher Dependency in Marriage

   See why a Cinderella relationship doesn’t make your dreams come true. Learn about 4 types of dependencies analogous to pioneer’s wagons.

3. Break apart cleaving in a relationship

   Find what “cleaving” really means, and how to cleave in marriage by understanding baking (yes, baking!). Also, consider what submitting in marriage means, like ballroom dancing, and when you can bypass this submission.

4. Figure your overgiving and its effects on you

   Uncover Christlike characteristics of why you may have erroneously overgiven in marriage. Uncover the two parts of overcoming overgiving, and four points to loving your spouse as yourself. Find how to keep your spirit in alignment to be true to yourself.

5. Discover Differentiation

   Using a SWOT analysis, compare and contrast integration and differentiation, and your valuable diamond-you. Learn of the “prized union” in marriage as I discuss emblems in your Keepsake Locket.

6. Know what it means to be who you really are.

   See how you might have been existing in a bubble. Explore 6 points to “Being a Me,” through your Bill of Rights, Boundaries, Detaching with Love, Self-Care, Self-Love, and Connection with God.

7. See 12 parts of what Sense of Self means

   Appreciate 12 ideas of Self from knowing your absolute value to realizing your divine heritage.

8. Learn a mind-blowing concept in empathy

   Understand four points of empathy and how empathy can be taken too far. Identify ways to keep in your own energy. Engage in an activity of knowing who you really are and hope to be.

9. Bringing it all together with integration

   Ponder what a happy coming-together has the potential for as you show up as your best self.

   
   

   Conclusion: Enjoy the “Butterfly” meditation wrapping it all together metamorphically.

I hope you enjoy this marital journey as you find the joy of two whole people coming together to create something wonderful!