Can the purpose of a relationship be to trigger our wounds?
In a way, yes, because that is how healing happens;
darkness must be exposed before it can be transformed.
The purpose of an intimate relationship is not
that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses,
that it be a place where we can hide from our weaknesses,
but rather where we can safely let them go.
It takes strength of character to truly delve into
the mystery of an intimate relationship,
because it takes the strength to endure a kind of psychic surgery,
an emotional and psychological and even spiritual initiation
into the higher Self..."
― Marianne Williamson
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