On any given week, BCC Counselors meet with people who are seeking peace with their spouse, seeking freedom from unhealthy attachments, seeking intimacy from disheartening distance, seeking rest from persistent arguing, seeking insight for confusing dynamics.
These are just some of the tricky relational dynamics that we are privileged to speak into on a daily basis. Truth be told, most of us have had some experience with each of these struggles to some extent, but it can be hard to know how to turn them around and begin to experience something healthier.
The truth is you have the ability to make choices that can transform virtually any relationship.
Choose Humility to Admit Your Mistakes
In the counseling office, we often interact with painful relationships where the goal becomes seeking affirmation that they are the “good one.” One person is adamant they are in the right and the other party is wrong. Pride gives us a false confidence that we should tell others what to do, because we are likely more right than they are and we have insight that the other person sorely lacks.
While our perspective of “being superior” may be true for a parent to a young
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