Thursday, December 24, 2009

Acceptance Grows Love

Relationship struggles or stress between you and loved ones may be a part of your experience today. Frustration may result from an argument, disagreement, or unresolved tensions. However, the emotions you feel today may have less to do with the actual conflict than with your efforts to resolve the conflict in your favor. Your day may improve and your relationships may be healed if you’re willing to relax. You may be trying too hard to change a loved one or mold a friendship to your liking. Try to remember that relationships can thrive in spite of differences of opinion and disparate needs. In order to appreciate your loved ones more today, consider drafting a list of their good qualities and personal characteristics that you find attractive.

It is when we learn to accept people as they are that we become able to maintain deep, meaningful relationships with others. When you accept others, you recognize that they are different from you and acknowledge that it is those differences that make them interesting. Acceptance is about loving the person that they are, even when there is tension between you. Accepting your loved ones leaves you free to stop trying to change them so that they fit your ideal. You are then free to make the relationship fit the person, rather than the person fit the relationship. When you accept your loved ones for who they are today, your relationships can flourish.

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