Thais Gibson

And then in the power struggle stage, it's the very thing that has one of the greatest likelihoods of driving the relationship apart.

And it looks like this.

They were so assertive.

I loved that early on.

And now in the power struggle stage, you're like, they never compromise.

Yeah.

Or early on, you're like, oh, my God, I love that they go with the flow.

They're so flexible when he's going.

And then you're like, hello, like we have plans.

Get here on time.

And it happens like clockwork in every relationship.

And the what I believe to be both the psychological and even spiritual lesson is to integrate those traits collectively.

Yeah, so for example, let's say, let's pretend it's me and my husband.

And actually we were kind of like this.

I met my husband when I still had a little boundary work to do.

And he was so good at setting boundaries, just like so direct, so straight up, so to the point.

And I remember really admiring it.

And then sure enough, I knew, we got in the power struggle stage and it started to, I was like, hello.

And so I went to him and I said, hey, and I knew this already.

I was equipped, thank goodness.