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News Release Recover From Holiday Flirtations
January 10, 2005 Jealousy and Resentment Block Love and Trust Synopsis: Holiday parties can lead to flirtatious encounters that spark jealousy. Ways to avoid these feelings and keep the relationship values are covered. Questing France, a self-help book, assists couples with the process of confronting flirtations and assessing if their intimacy and trust can be re-established.
What one person will accept in their partner's behaviour can be very different than another. The important issue for a couple is that they have clearly agreed upon expectations of the limits they will accept. Falling in love is a wonderful feeling. It is very different than being overcome with lust. The feelings that rage into a frenzy with sexual arousal are more about a physical response and desire for conquest than love. Once the arousal has cooled it is easy to say; "That didn't mean anything to me." The partner who feels annoyed, jealous or rejected by their partner's behaviour doesn't want to accept that the obvious display of attraction was meaningless. They feel embarrassed, cheated and eventually lied to. What they observed did not look like something harmless or meaningless. It appears more like a direct threat to their relationship. Resolving the feelings that watching a partner flirting and making sexualized contact with another person is challenging. Intense conflicts often follow holiday parties. It is important to work through these emotions without destroying the trust of your spouse. Getting the issue resolved helps avoid building resentment that can ruin a relationship. Rather than staying in the blame stage of a relationship, move on to the learning phase. Before going to the next gathering the couple needs to agree on issues like: 1. If dancing with someone other than their partner is acceptable? Celebrating important events with others is part of life. Having group fun helps build a long term lifestyle. Building relationships with people with similar values and expectations helps couples wake up after the partying is over able to talk about the fun and feel good about themselves and their relationship. Questing France: Deepening the Search For My Holy Grail,
is a self-help book that encompasses the confrontation of infidelity
and the process of rebuilding a new style of marriage relationship.
It takes the reader on trips where the freedom from responsibilities
allows time to work on the marriage. It also helps find the answer
when the question is asked: "Is this marriage worth saving?"
Detailed ways to work at being happily Author Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem M.Ed., is a registered marriage and family therapist with a private practice in Burlington Ontario Canada and author of books on personal growth through travel. Questing Marilyn is about the search for the authentic adult Self and asks: "Who can I be when I am free to be my Self?" Questing France is about holding onto the Self when in a marriage. Questing France asks the question: "Can I be me when I am with you?" - 30 -
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