How Much Weight Are You Carrying...emotionally that is?

Our past experiences and relationships have a profound influence on the people to which we are drawn, how we think, feel and behave in our relationships. Emotional baggage follows and accumulates from one relationship to the next, too often unknown to the carrier, resulting in relationships that, at their core have nothing to with the other person. Consequently, relationships become merely venues for acting out past unresolved issues. How often, have we encountered stuff being thrown on us by our partners, which is clearly from the past and has nothing to do with the present? This becomes an impediment to truly knowing our partners and, in turn, being known.