Reframing the Relationship

Reframing is a very simple concept: to adjust and adapt your relationship in life of changes. Listen to the podcast for more:

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Changes that might force you to reframe your relationship are:
A) Changes in yourself - When your beliefs, lifestyle or values change (you find a new religion, decide to live in the mountains, start to work out and get in shape, etc.)
B) Changes in the other person - When their beliefs, lifestyle or values change (lose their job, get in an accident and face fear of getting in another, personal trauma, etc)
C) External Changes - Random, uncontrollable changes to your life circumstance (your government destabilizes and you get put under martial law, a major natural disaster threatens your town, etc)--I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been in the podcast about this type of change.

You should never give up on a relationship because when you do, you are forfeiting any investment you put into the relationship already. The greatest investment to a relationship happens in the very beginning when you are initially forming it, but the payoff always happens later on, and often the payoff in any relationship gets exponentially greater with time. When you give up on a relationship, you are not only giving up on all of the hard work you have already put into the relationship, but you are also giving up on the potential gain you will be getting in the future.


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