What does it mean? Where does it take us? What paths will we inevitably cross? What bonds will we inevitably share, or attempt to at least? Do any common factors lie in all relationships?
The phrase, partners in life, has endless implications. Comprised of endless perspectives meshing with other perspectives to make more perspectives.
The problem is many of those implications are put in our minds by the Enemy. Lies fester us, bug us, occasionally become us. Many of these lies, we could never see coming. Put in place by hundreds of years of oppression designed to help use cope with the unnatural state of the post industrial technologically booming, incredibly connected and endlessly red taped Modern Age.
As Modern partners in Modern life, the lies can make things confusing from time to time.
In my personal “Modern Life,” I view my relationship, my partnership, as something very strange lately. This being the reason of my posting. The mysteries that love brings couple themselves with many fantastic feelings. Curiosity, wonder, passion…
Lately it has been feeling… less dreamy. Less… less childish, but not typical of anything really. Just strangely existent, as if something out of nothing, it pulls in a direction of true growth, yet still holding myself to someone else while they themselves grow in their own way. Unique in my own, yet indivisible in spirit.
Is this the essence of a partner in life? A partner in growth? Alone, yet not alone.
Who would deny that love is the only reliable current that takes one from ignorance to sacred knowledge? Upon that powerful current, here also is the man, he is the row man, and here the woman, she is the coracle. And nothing can stand in the way of their united freedom. Thus your partners as well, would do good to avoid being stopped by dams of prudence at the meager boundaries of social convention. To become transgressive and tresspassing “Partners in Love”, precognitive, innocently contemptuous of the marketplace, neo-formations within and yet colourfully beyond life itself. Enabling one to make progress, conversation, and love - simultaneously…
To have equal courage in the face of consuming bliss & terror, together or apart!
To harbour no life (marketplace) goals, and share goals in Existence!
To dare take what you intuit seriously and bring the genuine school of religious potency into your home.
I agree. Man and woman are the basic social unit in which her role is to intuit what they realize, as good or bad, while his role is to realize, as true or false, what they intuit. This unit may grow into social unity.
I’m not sure if I subscribe to men and women having particular “Jobs.” In a 50 50 relationship, both parties are doing everything they can to further every agenda that they can. Putting any one person in charge of any aspect of a relationship puts a burden on the other persons shoulders. It may be common place for men and women to assume certain roles, but those roles are part of the lies I was initially talking about. It is my belief that the expulsion of those lies is crucial to attaining a True partnership.
The concept of roles just seems so limiting. Willingly at that. I do not doubt that if a woman were raised as a man she would have a similar skill set as a man would.
Imho it is not limiting but liberating for both, thereby strengthening the relationship and turning it into Truth. When she intuits that their reality is good, as he tries to realize their intuition, then her feeling that reality is good, may happen simultaneously with his feeling that intuition is true.