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which determines how you relate to male authority figures, and a Female Authority Blueprint, based on your relationship with your mother, which determines how you relate to female authority figures.
The Marriage Blueprint governs every one of your romantic relationships, from casual dating through long-term committed relationships. It’s based on your perceptions and experience of your parent’s relationship.
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Even though your romantic relationships are based on your parent’s relationship, they don’t have to stay that way.
Relationship blueprints provide the expectations that shape the dynamics of our relationships.
The quality of the relationship depends on the quality— and the reasonableness—of the expectations. You can build a relationship from any set of expectations. The more difficult or unreasonable expectations you include in your blueprint, the more challenging your relationships will be.
The good news is that questioning, adjusting, and replacing the expectations in a relationship blueprint is simple. If you don’t like something in your Marriage Blueprint, you can change it. There are no objective rules or limits to human relationships. You’re perfectly free to customize your relationships in any way you (and your
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partner) choose. The bad news is that while altering the expectations of your relationship blueprints is simple, it’s not always easy. Almost all of the expectations that make up your relationship blueprints are unconscious. That’s why they’re so powerful. Often, you don’t become conscious of these expectations until they blow up in your face.
you can change it. You can question your expectations and consciously design a relationship blueprint that works for you. Revising the Marriage Blueprint can dramatically improve your romantic relationships. But there’s a lot to consider before you can do that.
In this first part of this two-part series, we’ll explore the functions of the Marriage Blueprint. In the second part of the series, we’ll consider how Astrology can point out some of the inner dynamics of the Marriage Blueprint.
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While visiting my parents many years ago, my mother mentioned to me that she and my father had separate bedrooms and no longer slept in the same bed. I was
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