Rebeccah SilenceWorlds Leading Love & Emotional Healing Coach • Speaker • Author • Creator of The Unsilent Woman

The Real Formula For Relationships

3 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Rebeccah Silence (speaker labeled SPEAKER A) introducing a personal-development relationship metaphor: "one plus one equals three." The speaker recounts a mentor's lesson that relationships involve three elements — the two individuals and the relationship itself — and emphasizes balancing independence and connection rather than choosing codependence or isolation.

One plus one equals three. And this is the formula that first mentor I mentioned earlier had taught me very early on in my personal development. And I was so intrigued. Wait. One plus one equals three. There's me, there's you, there's us. And there are three different major pieces of relationship to nurture all at the same time. It doesn't have to be me, independent and free, or a relationship. It doesn't have to be codependent. I mean, I was mind blown when I first heard this one plus one equals three possibility.