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8 Relationship Advice From Carl Jung
I discovered Carl Jung as an undergrad. Fifteen years later, I read Harville Hendrix’s eye-opening book, Getting the Love you want. And then my brain somehow combined the two. It suddenly struck me how much Carl Jung’s insights could help make our relationships better.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Cinderella stepsisters bitterly remember about that! To make a relationship work, you need three things. One is to be flexible and adapt to your environment (it doesn’t hurt when it comes to sex either). Two is to be agile because the waterfall is too old school. Three is not to comment on your partner’s choice of shoes.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
That’s makeup sex in a nutshell. When words are not able to explain, understand, or convince, hugs are the way to our partner’s heart. Get physical! Slowly slide your hands from their shoulders to their panties for more mystery solving.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Sometimes our partners burst into flames for the smallest thing. Don’t they look completely crazy then? But maybe we are a tad too quick in forgetting how long the tension has been building…
