Are You Searching for Your Other Half?
Spiritual prompt for the week of April 3rd through April 9th — relationship advice from God
The Prompt: Create an essay, poem, fiction, or creative nonfiction inspired by the following quote:
“The purpose of a relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.” — Neale Donald Walsch from Conversations with God, Book 1
Some Personal Thoughts:
After my 30-day stint at a 12-step based rehab in the summer of 2012, I went straight to another in-patient treatment program with a more individualized approach. Being twice divorced, having spent my entire relationship history searching for a soulmate, and at the time involved in what I refused to recognize as a highly toxic codependent relationship, my therapist gave me the following homework assignment — “describe a healthy romantic relationship.”
I wrote that each partner should maintain their sense of self; no one should lose who they are to the relationship; it should be a partnership wherein each person maintains their autonomy; kind of like a treaty between, for example, the United States and Canada — contributions and rules are agreed to but each country maintains its sovereignty. This described…
