If you "play games" in your relationships and in your life-- fear is at the bottom of your game playing.
Many people fear that if they are completely honest and open with the people in their lives, they won't get the love that they want and their needs won't be met. The trouble with "game-playing" is that when you play games to avoid what you fear may happen--then what you fear usually happens by default.
When you play games in your relationships--you are creating distance, disconnection and mistrust. If you are trying to get more attention from your loved one by trying to make him or her jealous or any other ways of conscious or unconscious manipulation to get what you want, it will backfire and only push you further apart.
If you want to create more connected, vital and alive relationships, you may want to take a hard look at the areas in your life where you play games. Step one is to eliminate the game playing and step two is to begin living your life in a manner consistent with who you really are and who you want to be.
"you really can't (or should not be able to) hide all your imperfections when you are in a serious relationship with someone. and no one is perfect. so why ever pretend to be what you are not? "
Ditto. When I was going through all this testing and game playing bullshit with my Aqua ex it was mainly LK and Freebird who made me see sense! OK I may not have liked some of what I heard at the time lol but it did help, I was making far too many excuses for his behaviour off the back of him being an Aqua.
I know this post wasn't directed specifically at Aqua men but all I'd heard was about how this is what they do and how to react etc. sod that all I ended up doing was playing right into his hands and confirming that his behaviour was acceptable, when it was far from.
Many people fear that if they are completely honest and open with the people in their lives, they won't get the love that they want and their needs won't be met. The trouble with "game-playing" is that when you play games to avoid what you fear may happen--then what you fear usually happens by default.
When you play games in your relationships--you are creating distance, disconnection and mistrust. If you are trying to get more attention from your loved one by trying to make him or her jealous or any other ways of conscious or unconscious manipulation to get what you want, it will backfire and only push you further apart.
If you want to create more connected, vital and alive relationships, you may want to take a hard look at the areas in your life where you play games. Step one is to eliminate the game playing and step two is to begin living your life in a manner consistent with who you really are and who you want to be.