How To Make Your Relationship a Place of Healing

We especially do not like to go deep below the surface, especially when it comes to our relationships and psychological health. However, this seems to be where life was meant to be lived. We all ideologically know that relationships make or break our quality of life, yet we choose to focus on external things like career, money, and experiences that are temporal in nature and only touch on a part of us. These things make parts of us come alive in temporary instances, but do not seem to have the staying power to positively impact our self-worth like healthy relationships. On the other hand, we seem to expect relationships to just work out naturally and if there is conflict it must mean that the relationship was not meant to be or that we have not found the right person. We know that in this life, “You can’t take it with you when you go,” is a true enough statement, and the value of legacy is more about who you are then what you are, but still we stay on the surface. Why?