How to Love Your Partner in Their Shadows While Setting Boundaries
About this episode
In this episode, Mike and Courtney explore how to love a partner in their shadows while maintaining healthy boundaries.
Join our new Masterclass offering for individuals and couples wanting to reopen their hearts after conflict. 👉Sign up HERE: https://www.thesacredwe.com/rupture-and-repair In this episode of The Sacred We, Mike and Courtney go into some of the most honest, vulnerable territory they've shared yet. Mike's shadow: the numbness and freeze that comes from losing two primary attachments before his first birthday -- and how his body stopped showing signs of wanting connection even when he desperately craves it. Courtney's shadow: a fierce, protective fight response to masculine energy, forged through a childhood where she had to battle hard to protect herself. And then they get into the real work: what it looks like to actually love a partner in their shadow -- not fix it, not flee from it, not enable it -- but be in a real, boundaried, tender relationship with it. Together. What "relating with your partner's shadow" actually means -- and why "they just need to do their own work" misses the whole point of intimacy Mike's shadow -- the freeze and disconnect pattern -- what it looks like from the outside (blank face, no visual cues) and what's actually happening inside…
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