Create Your Strongest Year Yet as a CoupleGet Intentional With Your Relationship in 2025: Download our exact blueprint to aligning your values and planning your year, with our 2025 Yearly Couples Planning & Alignment Workbook—just $19. Get it here: https://bit.ly/2025goalsetting "You can't change what you can't see." In this episode of Master Your Marriage, we explore the concept of the adaptive child and how it influences relationship dynamics. They discuss the importance of self-awareness in recognizing losing strategies and the need for self-confrontation to foster emotional growth. Practical tips are provided for navigating different relationship quadrants, emphasizing the significance of healthy boundaries and the necessity of breaking destructive patterns to achieve a balanced and fulfilling relationship. Takeaways: Understanding your adaptive child is crucial for relationship growth.Self-confrontation helps in recognizing personal contributions to relationship issues.Breaking old patterns requires conscious effort and awareness.Healthy boundaries are essential for real connection in relationships.Recognizing losing strategies can lead to better emotional responses.Disrupting destructive patterns can lead to healthier relationship dynamics.Each relationship quadrant requires specific healing work.Empathy and compassion are vital in overcoming one-up behaviors.Self-esteem plays a significant role in relationship satisfaction.Real intimacy requires a grounded and mature approach. 💬 Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/masteryourmarriage/?hl=en Mentioned in this episode: Yearly Goal-Setting Workbook for Couples Yearly Goal-Setting Workbook for Couples: Create Your Strongest Year Yet as a Couple Get Intentional With Your Relationship in 2025: Download our exact blueprint to aligning your values and planning your year, with our 2025 Yearly Couples Planning & Alignment Workbook—just $19. BONUS OFFER: Purchase before January 1, 2025 and receive an exclusive invitation to join us live where we will answer all your questions at our OWN planning retreat on January 4th! Get a behind-the-scenes look at exactly how we use these same tools in our own marriage -every year.