Relationships and Parenting

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

Relationships shape our personality, starting with early childhood. The good news is - we can always learn how to reshape it if we feel like. It looks like we inherit the way we interact with others from parents or primary caregivers. We can get the best from human interaction with sufficient awareness of the heritage.

Parents or other caregivers, most of the time, pass on a model of interacting with the world to the children. The different models of relationships you learn in your early childhood are called attachment styles. With the attachment style, parents or caregivers pass on their unresolved relationship problems. So, one of the most significant challenges and responsibilities for parents resides in nurturing a safe relationship.

Guess what: you can teach your child only what you're able to do yourself. If you want to pass on a healthy relationship model to your children, the rule is: you learn it first. Practice it every day, and your children will acquire it the same way they acquire language. And the most beautiful thing! They will be able to attract a partner open to healthy, loving, and respectful relationship and to pass this model to their children when they have them.

The interaction style you had with your parents or other caregivers when you were little shaped a considerable part of your personality. It worked in both ways: the situations you can handle in a relationship, as well as those you can't. And it is valid for both family relationships and relationships in your working environment. You will argue that in the working environment, interactions with other people can go much better than within the family. I won't disagree!

And you know why? In most cases, we learn from our caregivers that family relationships do not need particular knowledge or skills. It means we do not make efforts to build them in the best way we can, we just let them go by inertia. In contrast, at work, we might be willing to play our best part, to give the best we can because our image and paycheck are at stake. Did you ever think about it? Want to know more? Book a free 45 min. session and let's talk.

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