Rupture and repair

When a relationship encounters a rupture, it doesn’t need to spell an ending – far from it. Sometimes a rift in a connection, once recovered, can strengthen the relationship.

Rawness in relationships can be repaired if there’s enough goodwill from each party to be able to explore the problem(s) in a non-judgmental space. Wobbles in trust, self-worth, empowerment, betrayal, grief and loss, hope and fear, are all areas that may benefit from being addressed rather than ignored. Embracing the challenge can help to forge pathways towards restoration, resolution, reconciliation, forgiveness and self-forgiveness.

For more information on this theme, it might be worth checking out systemic therapy, which helps to unite larger units of people, such as families, as well as couples. This work helps make sense of the present and the past. It explores the main areas
that are affecting everyone as a whole: the dynamics, the process, the games
people play, the resentments, the cognitions, the emotions, the actions. It helps individual members to empathise and sympathise with each other, to each get a voice and have that voice validated, to improve communication and ultimately to build stronger bonds.