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Its kind of a thing. Your partner exasperated with some behavior that you do, asked you to really work on that behavior. Your partner said they want you to make active steps towards changing. This could be seemingly smaller things like putting the milk back when you're done using it, cleaning up after yourself, or not making tone deaf jokes in company. It could also be larger things like addiction or infidelity. Whatever the case, have you gotten this request from your partner, began...

Family systems tend to have roles. With the family rebel (child or adult), the anger is often obvious. Maybe its seen through using substances early (teenager) and or to excess. Maybe its punching a hole in the wall, throwing things. Hollering and screaming. Playing music so loud it bleeds through every wall in the house. Risky sexual behaviors. Generally being confrontational or contrarian. Being abusive emotionally or verbally to one’s spouse. However it shows up, the anger is often on the...

So what happens when only one person’s voice or feelings are heard in a romantic relationship (or at least much more heard than their partner)? Well, things get wonky in the relationship if they weren’t already. This imbalance ends up touching so many if not all of the relationship: the communication, maintaining a living space, child rearing, socially, sexually emotional intimacy etc. And there are a whole host of reasons or situations where one person has lost their voice, or chosen not to...