Four In A Bed
Thursday transformational storytelling.
Happy Thursday!
It’s transformational storytelling time!!! I have prepared one last parable from “The little book of Sufi parables” because of its powerful message. I have been having a lot of “relationship” talks with couples lately and I believe this story pretty much sums them up.
I hope you find it as insightful as I did. It’s one of those humoristic sad realities, if you may…
After his wife died, Mulla Nasrudin married a widow. But things did not go smoothly because Mulla constantly talked about his former wife and the woman constantly talked about her dead husband.
One night, lying in bed, they began to talk about their former spouses again, when suddenly, Mulla shoved his wife off the bed. The woman was so upset about the incident that the next day she complained about Mulla to her father. The father-in-law asked Mulla why he had pushed his daughter off the bed.
Mulla said: “Believe me, it was not my fault. With my former wife and her deceased husband, there were four of us in the bed, and there was not enough room, so she just fell off!
How many of us unconsciously bring the past into present relationships? From unhealed childhood wounds and traumas to experiences we’ve had with people whom we…
