When Relationships Refuse to Evolve: How Stagnant Partnerships Infect Social Environments
If you’ve got people who don’t do their individual inner work, who are also in dysfunctional or consciousness-stagnant partnerships or marriages, who are attempting to preserve their existing relational structures and sense of stability while refusing to interrogate their own participation in relational dysfunction, in certain contexts, social settings, or environments that reward appearance over integrity, accountability to one’s own processes of inner development, and having depth of inner substance, instead of turning inward, they will often seek out an external person to be the problem for their own inability to confront, question, or change the relational patterns, power imbalances, emotional disconnection, or unresolved conflicts embedded in their personal and relational lives, rather than cultivating the self-awareness required to interrupt those dynamics. In dysfunctional relationships, maintaining the appearance of stability often takes precedence over addressing what’s ...