Couplehood: The Imago Path to Real Love
Imago Relationship Theory helps to clarify what happens when we fall in-and out of-love. It offers insights into the unconscious agenda we bring to our relationship. With this information and insight, we can begin to co-operate with this hidden agenda. As a result, we can choose to grow together in a creative, non-controlling, and healing way that creates a more loving, passionate, safe, fun-filled, and fulfilling relationship. The focus becomes, "What does our relationship need from me?" rather than "What do I need from our relationship?" Some of the main IMAGO concepts presented in this program include:
Romantic attraction connects us with someone who has traits that are similar to specific positive and negative traits in our parents/caretakers.
The unconscious purpose of romantic love is to establish a bond with another person whom we feel will meet needs that were not met in our childhood.