How Parenting Your Partner Ruins Relationships & The Desire for Intimacy

<p><strong>So exasperating! Your partner seems like an extra child. Not what you signed up for, right!</strong></p><p><strong>And, no amount of pointing out his/her failures, incompetencies, or lack of thought seems to change things, either.</strong></p><p><strong>Infuriating!</strong></p><br><p>OK...I understand, but it's definitely not going to help if you are viewing your partner as an extra child. That alone needs your immediate attention!</p><br><p>If you actually<strong> treat your partner as an extra child</strong>--giving direction, finding fault, ridiculing, shaming, and blaming--your relationship will always be lacking in those three MUST-HAVES: equality, reciprocity, and mutuality. It will always be frustrating, infuriating, and unsatisfying.</p><br><p>And, the bedroom? Going to consistently be contentious. No desire because there's not respect. It's all going to go sideways, and I give you some pointed examples of why in this episode.</p><br><p>So, if you're<strong> unhappy in your relationship,</strong> it could be that this episode can change all that as you understand the impossible dynamics of parenting your partner as a primary process. Sure, we are occasionally that parental figure that makes the bad go away for each other, that soothes the bruises and bumps. That's great.</p><br><p>It's when the primary attitude of an attempt to be a partner is "It feels like I have an extra child" is in place, then everything else slowly disintegrates.</p><br><p>Listen and I'm sure it will makes sense to you. Good news: this can change!</p><br><p><br></p><p>Big hugs!</p><p>Rhoberta</p><br><p><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF TODAY'S EPISODE:</strong></p><ul><li>H<strong>ow you damage your relationship when you act like your partner's parent</strong></li><li><strong>Why you feel resentment when you feel you have to parent your partner</strong></li><li><strong>What 'parenting' your partner may look/sound</strong></li><li><strong>Why behaving like a parent to your partner builds resentment</strong></li><li><strong>Why you do