Relationships can set tone and trajectory for a lifetime. Almost all significant relationships, especially romantic relationships, will face moments that require a decision and the decision becomes a defining moment in the life of the relationship. While such opportunities for defining moments are usually delivered in conflictual situations, some couples are able to make them quite proactively. Either way, each person must decide to walk away or toward and be willing to face the consequences of the decision.
When to walk away, sometimes for a while, sometimes forever:
- Where there has been violence of any kind or degree.
- Where there has been betrayal and infidelity – sexual or financial.
- Where there’s an addiction (and they usually come in pairs) where your staying is enabling or facilitating the addictive cycle.
When to walk toward and try again:
- Where your feelings of fear and abandonment are familiar to you and have persisted within you in preceding relationships and now they are surfacing again.
- Where there’s been genuine and visible change and it’s been for reasons other than trying to make you stay.
- Where rash or impetuous decisions have caused you great pain and resulted in much regret in the past and you’d prefer to not repeat the pattern.
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