The Gift of Taking Things Personally
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6 min readFeb 22, 2023
It feels good when we don’t take things personally in relationships. We enjoy the feelings of inner freedom and goodwill when we feel compassion for our struggling partners when their behavior misses the mark. We enjoy the feelings of internal stability when we are undisturbed by our partners’ emotional dysregulation and feel internally stable. This feels good, and it feels bad when we take things personally. We can…