The Healthy Compulsive Project
The Healthy Compulsive Project
Gary Trosclair
Ep. 74: Four Ways that Control Smothers the Flames of Romantic Love
18 minutes Posted Feb 11, 2025 at 9:00 am.
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Ah romance. What could feel better than falling in love? Bliss, delight, ecstasy. But those can happen only if we can let go enough to get things going, and enough to sustain them as things get more challenging. Nothing smothers romantic love worse than control. And this happens in more ways than you might expect. Today we’ll explore some of the blocks from family and culture that can predispose us to block the very thing we want.