Personal growth leads to relationship growth
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Making a chain stronger means working on each of the individual links. This analogy has implications for our personal lives and for our relationship as well.
Normally, people spend the most time in the area where they are strongest and feel most confident. A person who is great at his job may spend most of his time there, even when another part of his life is becoming a weaker and weaker link in the chain. It could be his relationship with his children, or his wife. Or maybe it is his physical health. If that weaker link should break, then it would also harm his career–no matter how strong it was.
Couples that are wonderful at managing a home may become better and better managers and their home may become very beautiful and an envy of the neighbors. But, if they let other areas of their relationship go such as communication, intimacy, or sexuality, then their beautiful home could end up with a for sale sign in front of it.
A careful assessment of your weakest links can help you to work on those things that make your entire life and relationships better. Your relationship coach can help to do such an assessment. Typically such an assessment is one of the first steps in relationship coaching for just such reasons as mentioned here.
Posted: November 28th, 2008 under Improving Relationships, Life Coach, Relationship Coaching, Relationship Skills.
Tags: relationship assessment