What type of relationship is yours, we're going to look over five different characteristics of a relationship. And we're going to look a little deeper at the difference between again the typical relationship and the enlightened relationship. The first one is characteristics. So a typical relationship you'll see shared living environment shared responsibility, friendship and physical intimacy. With an enlightened relationship, there'll be shared interests time together, mutual support for growth, emotional intimacy, and true companionship we already covered this last time. Number two is strategies for improvement.

So for a typical relationship, they usually improve through learning relationship skills, so communication strategies, compromise, sharing things in common recognizing differences and accepting them becoming aware of triggers and patterns and learning each other's love language and the star is there because we're going to cover that soon now in an enlightened relationship. is going to be an improvement by learning about yourself. So creating a shared life vision, increasing quality time together, helping the other reach each other's highest potential, improving your connection, developing a deeper understanding of your uniqueness and fully recognizing and working on your triggers and patterns. Number three is attachment. So in a typical relationship, it'll be based on need relationships can sometimes be clingy and based on dependency, it's common for some people to withdraw from friends and family and base their identity solely on the relationship which often leads to drama. Now the enlightened relationship will be a relationship based on want.

True union both genuinely wants to spend time together as two separate people sharing one journey. This only works when both people avoid cleanness rudeness being controlling and no drama. Number four is roles and identities. So in a typical relationship, partners will be living out roles patterns. So many times people in relationships are playing out rules that they learned from childhood or society. They can be unbalanced causing competition, drama, control struggles, these types of people are not truly being themselves and they hold back a lot.

Now for an enlightened relationship partners are living as individuals together, both people work on themselves to be balanced individuals. It's not really the relationship that's enlightened, it's to enlightened people coming together, and this lowers conflict and drama. And lastly, number five is growth. In a typical relationship growth happens through experience so you learn lessons within the relationship that help you grow and learn and become better people and partners. Relationships help people become aware of themselves by mirroring back to each person their inner fears and emotions by working on yourself within the relationship you benefit your relationship as well as you grow as an individual. Now for an enlightened relationship growth happens consciously you can have it in In relationship by growing through experience with a partner or by growing as an individual and then ending up with another enlightened person, enlightened relationships will be better the lives of both partners with mutual support of each other's dreams and talents.

Almost any two people can create a functional, satisfying relationship. If they put the effort in. Not everyone is ready for an enlightened relationship. And that's okay. Anyone can enlighten their current relationship though if they're willing to look honestly at themselves, release limiting beliefs and open themselves to real partnership. Both people need to want this kind of relationship.

Both people need to know themselves as well and have worked through most of their triggers and fears and both people need to have life and relationship goals that will actually work together. The great thing about relationships is that you can always learn, grow and improve from where you are now, even if you aren't in a relationship right now. We all carry bags. gets into our relationships we've all been hurt and have healing to do. We all have patterns we've learned and habits we'd like to break. We're all human.