Anger can obstruct, erode, or even demolish relational intimacy. And anger can also enhance such intimacy, particularly when it is engaged in the context of spiritual practice. As much as anger's fire can injuriously burn, it can also illuminate -- it all depends on what kind of relationship with anger we cultivate.
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Relationships that are stuck in anger-fueled power struggles are often sustained by a mutual bargaining (for example: "I won't complain about your drinking if you'll stop trying to have sex with me"). Far-from-sacred contracts these are, at best being ways to maintain the status quo, to take care of business. However, to go beyond treating relationship as business, or as something merely to negotiate our way through, relationship needs to become conscious, or infused by a mutual, ongoing commitment to uncovering, exploring, and awakening from the neurotic rituals habitually animated by both partners.
Essential to this is a responsibly expressed......
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