❤️🔥 In Relationship With x 💙 Asian Mental Health Project | When Love Isn’t Enough: Unpacking Reciprocity
Note on the session: This live session will be recorded and accessible to the facilitators, Kevin and Stephanie. They will use it to write a follow-up summary and post the recorded part of only their story on YouTube, to be accessible to folks who cannot attend the session live. Due to the privacy and protection of folks who attend the session, the rest of the recording will not be published or accessible at all.
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Love is a powerful foundation for relationships, but it's only one part of a thriving relationship.
How do you and your partner regularly pour into the relationship?What happens if the experience of love feels out of balance?
When we look closer, an imbalance in the relationship may be tied to the reciprocity of needs between two individuals. To highlight a few examples, perhaps one partner:
❤️🔥 Brings in more income and is the main provider or
❤️🔥 Makes themselves more available than the other to spend quality time together or
❤️🔥 Soundboards more often to provide emotional support
For some, meeting one type of need for the other person may feel like a big act of service. Reciprocity is key to nourishing the other person and maintaining a healthy balance.
Sometimes the balance could be skewed due to unexpected life situations, such as tragedies or having different life priorities (i.e. one person is finishing grad school while the other has worked for years).
While there are many more reasons that could contribute to an imbalance, the key to navigating the longevity of the relationship successfully requires open, vulnerable, and oftentimes hard discussions.
Join relational dynamics facilitators @kdoyo and @shadesofstephh as they discuss imbalances that they noticed in their relationship through different seasons and how they resolved them.
It’s safe to say that Kevin and Stephanie’s Asian experience has lots of complexity, and while their experience isn’t representative of all Asian cultures, their intention is to create a space to normalize having conversations about these themes.