If you do not understand racism (white supremacy) and how it works, everything else you understand will only confuse you. - Neely Fuller

We need something to clarify everything for us, because we get confused...but if we use the concept of Asili, we will understand that whatever it is they are doing, whatever terms they use, however they come at you, you need to be thinking about what? How is this going to facilitate their power and help them to dominate me? -Marimba Ani

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Why Do Relationships Have To Be So Complicated?

Inquiry: Why do relationships have to be so complicated? I believe most relationships encounter those sinkholes and because of certain limitations in our lives, we sorta sink up.*

Response: Interesting, "sink up" compared to "link up" and "limitations" compared to "improvements." [We sink up when we hook up with an incompatible belief or incompatible individual.]

[Why do relationships have to be so complicated?] They are not supposed to be BUT the further we move away from our natural selves it becomes harder to blend in healthy ways into a sustainable relationship (romantic, "friend," family, children, work, the environment).

The more we operate using unnatural thinking, ideas, beliefs, philosophies, values, social customs, gender roles, popular notions, traditions, practices, [chauvinisms], etc., the harder it is to come together to create something that is natural, feels natural and supports both spirits to their fullest degree of expression.

It only takes one belief or weakness to impede, which is why we must examine and question ourselves.

See Right By Default of My Own

By the way, your question and reflection is the type of ongoing inquiry that opens us to possibilities and discoveries.

*From comments on 36 Facts About Manipulators & Manipulation