Thais Gibson

And I need you to practice being okay and on your own.

And so they'll set those boundaries.

They'll communicate their needs.

And in doing that, it actually provides this beautiful opportunity to

For somebody to be like, oh, maybe I should practice that.

Maybe I should sort of train myself to do that.

And that's often where we can see those good outcomes.

Okay, so there is this thing we created that I talk about sometimes, and it's the six stages of relationship.

It's based off of some of Dr. Susan Johnson's work.

And there's the dating stage, which is usually the first, like, you know, zero to six months.

You're dating, you're bedding.

Then there's the honeymoon stage, which usually lasts for another year to year and a half.

Rose-colored glasses.

Yeah.

And then we enter into the power struggle stage.

And to your exact point, and I kind of laugh at this with endearment.

It's not fun when you're going through it.

Then people have to do the power struggle.

There's the rhythm stage.

You get into your rhythm.