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How to go from “I” to “we” in a relationship

Most people who didn’t have any major trauma in childhood will develop their individuality well despite any issues and tensions with their relationship with their parents. However, the concept of “we” and togetherness doesn’t come easy to them. That’s where this article will tackle the development of their concept of togetherness and its flawed process.

Irina Damascan
15 min readNov 1, 2020

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Ok, I got your attention but this is no clickbait article just because the title sounds like a “recipe”, as a disclaimer, by reading this, you will not have a guarantee that you will get this result in your relationship. The more complete and complex title would have been “Different perspectives on attachment and detachment in relationships” because it is about attachment forming and the coping mechanisms developed from the primary dynamic we had as children during our development of how we love.

The most difficult dynamic to manage in a relationship is the balance between togetherness and separateness. The core of the conversations is to have both connection and independence without feeling afraid to lose one another or yourself in this negotiation. This type…

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Irina Damascan
Relationship Stories

Experience and service designer passionate about psychology and behavioral change. Writing mostly on matters of the heart as a way to form user centric methods.