A book for the partner who's been carrying the whole relationship alone.
You wake up beside them and reach for your phones before you reach for each other. You've become careful, quiet roommates who used to be in love. And you're the only one who seems to notice.
You've done the reading. The searching. The hoping. While the person you most want to reach won't so much as open a cover.
You were never the one who failed to save this. You were the only one trying to.
You cannot make another person change. You never could. But you have been holding one end of a rope in a tug of war you never agreed to and cannot win. And you can drop it. By yourself. Tonight.
Calm your own nervous system so you stop bracing for every interaction.
Understand why your partner won't engage, without excusing it.
Grieve the relationship you hoped for, so you can see the one you actually have.
Fill your own cup instead of pouring from empty, and stop taking the bait.
Know the honest difference between staying, leaving, and getting safe.
Whatever your partner chooses, you come home to yourself. From fear, back to freedom.
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Rick is a transformational soul coach and certified clinical hypnotherapist in Sedona, Arizona. Since 2011 he has guided people through deeply personal work, helping them move from fear to freedom.
Before this, he spent nearly twenty years in television news. That's where he learned to listen for the real story underneath the one people think they're telling, and how to say a true thing simply.
For fifteen years he has sat with people carrying a marriage alone. This book is everything he wished he could have told them.
From fear to freedom, and a life you love.
The companion book. Where Drop the Rope is for the partner carrying it alone, this one is for two people ready to do the work together, what connection is, how it breaks, and how it comes back to life.
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