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Emotional Issues & Relationship © Martyn Carruthers
Are you entangled in bonded relationships?
Do you still suffer the consequences of abuse?
Do you want to solve emotional or relationship conflicts?
Continued from Assess Relationship Bonds Part 1
Identity Loss & Relationship Bonds
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The stronger a relationship bond, whether liked or disliked, the less freedom of thought and action. Bonds may range from shared memories to total identification. |
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People without relationship bonds may feel disconnected from life and from all relationships. Strangely, such disconnection is a goal of many so-called spiritual paths and also of military training. One result is unthinking obedience and compliance.
Some relationship bonds are existential – rules for thinking and behaving that affect all parts of life. When emotional bonds originate in a childhood crisis, a loss of identity may feel normal, and children may be unable to even imagine feeling differently.
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Identity Loss refers to an inability to access own emotions, beliefs and qualities that are central to sensing one’s own life. This may manifest as dissociation or the expression of inappropriate emotions (identification). |
We assess the health of relationships in some context. While bonds indicate some identity loss, we refer to the examples in the table below as identity issues – a loss of personal identity. We train people to resolve these issues – identification, identity conflict and lost identity.
| When I am not me … | |
| Identification | I feel and behave as if I was someone else |
| Identity conflict | I am / I have more than one conflicting personality |
| Lost identity | I do not know – or know minimally – who I am |
I developed a simple hierarchy of relationship health – from disconnected to healthy. This hierarchy is useful when evaluating relationships and entanglements with one person or with a group of people. (This hierarchy overlaps with the values hierarchy developed by Dr Clare Graves.)
| Assessing relationship health | |
| 1. Disconnected | I have no quality or healthy relationships. My only contact with people is to survive. (I may be suicidal) |
| 2. Codependent (1) | We depend on each other for survival |
| 3. Codependent (2) | We must control each other |
| 4. Symbiotic (1) | We stay / work together out of a sense of duty |
| 5. Symbiotic (2) | We stay / work together to exchange needed resources |
| 6. Community | We stay / work together to fulfill relationships that are important to both (all) of us |
| 7. Systemic | We stay / work together to develop effective community |
| 8. Global | We stay / work together to develop humanity / for the benefit of our planet |
When relating, some people act as if they were someone else (substitutes), or perceive other people as if they were someone else (transferences) or project their beliefs and desires onto other people (projection).
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| Substitution | When with this person, I pretend to be someone else |
| Projection | I project my past or my desires onto this person |
| Transference | I perceive this person as someone else |
Transference Bonds
Transferences can be described as mistaken identity. Transference behavior can range from perceiving a stranger as a friend or enemy, to committing to a partnership with someone who reminds you of someone or something in your past.
For example, parents who derive a sense of safety by behaving like a child will likely create unpleasant consequences for themselves and their children.
Children of confused or immature parents may become afraid of – or afraid for – their parents, and may strive to parent or partner their parents. See emotional incest.
Dissolve Relationship Bonds: Part 3
Martyn, have you have you tested your methodology on people with malevolent implants and/or MK Ultra type mind control and/or people influenced by witchcraft? Sometimes we see thru a glass darkly … because there are good reasons to do so beyond surviving in a dysfunctional family. OregonAnswer: We can help motivated adults change their unwanted bonds, including the undue influence of parents, therapists, doctors and teachers, who can create similar bonds and even damage people’s ability to bond to other people!
Summary
Loyalty and commitment to people, to products, to political agendas or to obsessions, compulsions and limiting beliefs, are relationship bonds that you can change.
