❤️🔥 In Relationship With x 💙 Asian Mental Health Project | Honoring Your Pacing in Romantic Relationships
😅 Have you ever felt slower to warm up, or rushed in a new relationship?
🤔 Have you ever felt like the feelings you and another person share towards each other are imbalanced and wondered how not to fixate on when your partner’s feelings would "match" yours?
😨 How about feeling scared of coming off as too pushy or too much and scaring another person away?
Pacing in relationships is often not discussed, which normalizes the experience of confusion, guilt, or anxiety, especially early on in a relationship. Dating culture can often pressure us into rules about when specific milestones should be met, when in reality, every relationship deserves to be on its own timeline, a decision that is continually co-created by both parties.
Sometimes familial culture can pressure us into getting married by a certain age, and how we’re raised will often impact the pace in which we open up and connect with another person.
Add in the Asian culture norms that could reinforce “saving face” and veering away from hard emotions, and all of this could be a recipe for turmoil and conflict within a relationship.
Relational dynamics facilitators, Kevin Do and Stephanie Tran, will unpack these themes in this Brave Conversation Series session.
This session will specifically explore:
❤️🔥 Pacing: How they navigated discussions about insecurities and hidden stories in their relationship when each of their comfort with vulnerability in the relationship differed
❤️🔥 Teamwork: How they acknowledged multiple truths to continually move the relationship forward and make space for its evolution, often taking 3 steps forward and 2 steps back
❤️🔥 Tools for Relating: The Heartbreak over Harmony principle by Relating Between the Lines
It’s safe to say that Kevin and Stephanie’s experiences have lots of nuance, 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.
Join us as we discuss what honoring your pacing could look like in romantic relationships.