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    What Your Life Partner Relationship Can Teach You About Yourself

    by Katherine Searcy Dec 31, 2017 2 minutes
    Life Partner Relationships, by Katherine Searcy, Photograph by Sabina Ciesielska

    Photograph by Sabina Ciesielska

    Allowing your life partner to open the windows to your soul

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    Have you ever felt insecure and alone in your marriage — even if your spouse is sitting right next to you, affirming all of your wonderful qualities, trying to find ways to love and support you?

    I have experienced this several times in the course of my marriage. I have felt deeply alone and abandoned with no reasons for the feeling. When I get to this place, I feel my protective walls go up, fortified with a moat and several sharp shooters ready to take aim at anyone who attempts to approach me. I go on the

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