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What if you could save your relationship by not engaging in your partner’s upsets, moods, anger, blame, and verbal attacks?  What if you could stop taking all of that personally?  What if you no longer felt like you had to defend your side of the story?

I ask these questions to my clients and they often become confused asking me in return, “Tamara, how could I not take it personally when he’s yelling at me and blaming me for losing his temper?“, or, “How can this relationship be saved when she goes off on me every other week?“, or, “He’s wrong, so don’t I need to defend my point of view”  

Now I want you to imagine that you and your partner are like tennis balls, playing a game of tennis. Your ball is your own special brand of energy, which is based on your own ancestral and childhood experiences. Your partner’s has his own special brand of energy, based on his ancestral and childhood experiences. Now, the tennis game starts when you meet. This game is fun, exciting, uplifting and wonderful. 

Then, one day, he becomes triggered by something you said or did, that really has nothing to do with you, he’s just reminded of a painful experience from his past. His tennis ball ends up in your court with a whole lot of anger, upset, or what have you. You then pick up that ball filled with his energy, get triggered yourself, based on your own painful past experiences, add to that ball and lob it right back in his court with your negative energy added to it.  Then, he has to defend himself on top of his anger, which adds even more energy to that ball, he lobs it back to you…..you add more of yours…..and back and forth it goes, until you are both so upset, so angry and wondering, “can we even be together?

Know that you, and almost everyone else on this planet, is operating from a place of having a story. This story is your life or your background, whether you came from a broken home, were abused, abandoned, or mistreated. This story of your life is yours, but it’s not you. It’s not who you really are, but it’s certainly your creation – a creation that you probably adopted from your family.

What I want to make very clear is that you and your partner are a made up of pure energy. That’s who you really are. You are not your story. Only your ego wants you to believe that. Who you really are is pure potential that can create (and dis-create, for that matter), manifest and actualize anything that you choose. ANYTHING!

Now, I am going to share with you how to handle your partner’s emotions. When he or she is triggered, and coming at you with anger, which means they are deeply entrenched in their painful story in that moment:

  1. Don’t argue against, or try to change, their point of view. Just listen. You can even say to yourself, “it’s an interesting point of view.” Feel even curious about their perspective. Don’t judge it. Don’t take it personally. It has nothing to do with you.  

  2. Don’t get caught up in the illusion that he or she has to change. Trust that they are who they are and that they are going to do what they always do. For example, she may feel more emotional during that time of each month, and he may be extra irritable when something at work didn’t go well. Never try to change the other, just be with who they are.  

  3.  Be neutral, or in a state of allowance, to their energy. Don’t try to resist or block what they are dishing out. When you do, that negative energy lands in you. When you are neutral, that energy goes through you. It slides right past you. Also, this means that you are not engaging them in their story. Keep your barriers down. This may take practice, but it’s completely possible.  

  4. Be grateful for who the other person is. You cannot be in the state of reaction, or judgment, and gratitude at the same time. In judgment, you are defending your point of view. However, finding what you are grateful for keeps you from judging. In gratitude, you may even become aware that you are choosing to not be in this kind of relationship any longer. At that point, you can choose what you wish to create. Gratitude tunes you in to the realm of possibility.

I know that what I’m listing here will be a challenge for many of you, but with a practice of quieting your mind, soothing the soul and loving yourself — it’s all very possible. Therefore, I challenge you to make this your priority so that you can experience lasting communion with your beloved. 

Tamara’s Tips:

  1. Don’t argue their perspective. Just listen.  
  2. Don’t try to change them. Be with who they are.  
  3. Don’t resist. Be neutral.  
  4. Don’t judge. Be grateful. 

Don’t forget to sign up for my Miracle Mondays Meditation if you haven’t done so already and take advantage of my 45-minute Guidance Session. Both are FREE for you!

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