Hannah Rose explores what keeps people stuck in relationship conflict, using parts work and personal examples. She traces how past hurt builds protective walls that block vulnerability, and how low self-worth makes it hard to know if you should stay or go.
things you should be asking yourself in your current relationship if you are experiencing conflict, if you're experiencing emotional ambivalence. Should I be with this person? Should I not be with this person? Should I stay or should I go, etc.? And so often when I'm working with clients, we're just exploring and navigating what part of them is staying in the relationship if they are unhappy much of the time. And there's a couple quick things and kind of tips that I often provide to my clients that I have absolutely done myself. So Number 1 would be— I think low self-worth is parts work. The different parts of ourselves and when they're activated and when they come out. Different behaviors that we exhibit, and especially behaviors that no longer serve us but we want to make sense of. Like the part of me that used to have a really difficult time with vulnerability was the part of me that was, you know, broken up with when I was 16 and learned how to put walls up and keep my guard up to protect myself from getting hurt. And that was a survival mechanism in many ways, but it also blocked me from authentic relationships for many years as well.
