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Do you know two or more people who "don't speak to each other"? Such relationship "cut-offs" (avoidances) occur among family members and others when one or both people (a) aren't aware they bear significant false-self wounds, and lack (b) mutual-respect attitudes and (c) effective communication skills, so they can't (d) effectively identify and assert their primary needs, and (e) resolve conflicts with the other person, and they (f) have lost hope that further attempts to do this can succeed. Many or all of these conditions are common among people who haven't healed enough from low-nurturance childhoods. Such burdened people often avoid relationship commitment, or divorce and re/marry without admitting and reducing significant psychological barriers with ex mates, relatives, and some kids. Relationship cutoffs hinder stepfamily bonding and promote sig-nificant loyalty conflicts and relationship triangles. Each cause of relationship cutoffs (above) can be healed over time, when both people choose to work patiently at applying the ideas in co-parent Projects 1 and 2! slides / more detail / close |
About Relationship Cut-offs