Partnership, Sympathetic Joy, Change, Transparency

Partnerships can either be the quickest and most profound formula for personal growth or they can be the cause of you being stuck in a rut for most of your life. The key is how open the relationship is and how supportive it is of your need to change. If your relationships force you to continue to act in only one role and never allow for risks or any experimentation with other aspects of your personality then it is a restrictive relationship. These must be identified and should either be modified or should be eliminated from your active life. Instead seek out relationships that allow you to adopt whatever role you feel is appropriate. Try new things. Be willing to change many aspects of your life. Be willing to pursue new relationships that have the potential to help you grow. The key to all successful relationships is a sense of unselfishness. If you can truly feel sympathetic joy for the other partner’s success and not feel jealousy when something good happens to them, then it is a positive relationship. Take this approach with all of your relationships and seek to deepen only those in which the other person is also excited about your growth and development. These types of relationships are the greatest gift you can experience in this lifetime.