Love Has No Opposite.
"In close relationships, it is important to emphasise a secure attachment bond and the co-regulation of emotional activation. Practising kindness toward our partners, listening to what is alive for them, caring for their suffering, and holding them during difficult times. Allowing them to matter, taking the risk to share our own vulnerability, and prioritising connection. It is also essential to be on the lookout for unhealthy fusion, honouring the reality that we are not only connected, but also separate. Any secure attachment must include healthy differentiation, where at times the most skilful activity will be to enact firm boundaries, actively assert our independence and needs, and be willing to disappoint others. While the concept of oneness is alluring, true oneness does not exist without embodiment to multiplicity or without a radical embrace of the chaos, contradiction, and darker revelations of the spectrum of love. The wise navigation of opposites – staying within th...