Family: Bluegrass Music - Alive and well in the Appalachians

Bluegrass Music - Alive and well in the Appalachians

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world is Bluegrass music. Born in hills and hollows, Bluegrass is simply mountain folk music with heavy Celtic influences.

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The Privilege of Resolving Relationship Conflict

Written by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

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Title: The Privilege of Resolving Relationship Conflict Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2004 by Margaret Paul URL: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 731 Category: Relationships

THE PRIVILEGE OF RESOLVING RELATIONSHIP CONFLICT By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.

In a phone session I had with Shelly and Stan, a couple who have been together for six years, they described to me a conflict they had repparttar 111034 day before. Stan had become irritated with Shelly and Shelly had responded to his irritation by withdrawing. This was a typical dynamic between them, and repparttar 111035 distance would often continue for days until they finally talked about it or until repparttar 111036 charged energy just dissipated. Neither was happy with repparttar 111037 distance, yet generally both waited for repparttar 111038 other to reach out.

In this particular conflict, Shelly decided that she didn’t want days of distance, so she went to Stan and apologized for her end of repparttar 111039 conflict and told him that she wanted to feel close to him rather than be distant. Stan softened and they were able to quickly move through repparttar 111040 conflict.

However, when Shelly told me about this, she complained that she was usually repparttar 111041 one who reached out and that it “wasn’t fair.” She didn’t like it that Stan often waited and stewed for days.

“Shelly,” I asked, “How did you feel when you were able to reach out and heal repparttar 111042 distance between you?”

“I felt good. I felt relieved.”

“Stan, how did you feel waiting and pouting?” I asked.

“I felt awful.”

“Shelly, maybe you can reframe your concept of reaching out. I believe that reaching out is a privilege. When I reach out, I move myself out of feeling like a victim and into my power. I like who I am when I reach out, and I don’t like myself at all if I stew and fume and blame and wait for repparttar 111043 other person to apologize. Even if I believe that repparttar 111044 other person is totally at fault, waiting for them to reach out feels awful. If repparttar 111045 other person has really behaved badly, somewhere within they are not feeling good about it, even if they are still angry with me. When I move into compassion for repparttar 111046 wounded part of them rather than staying stuck in my own righteousness, I feel peaceful within rather than in turmoil.

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