tertiary · Evolving

Strengthening

Part of the Relationship Dynamics Wheel

What is Strengthening?

Shared experience and mutual investment are making this bond more resilient. A strengthening relationship can hold more weight than it once could — more honesty, more difference, more difficulty. This quality is built through repeated choices to show up even when it is easier not to.

When you might feel strengthening

Strengthening is a specific form of growing together, which itself is a type of evolving. You might experience this feeling in situations where evolving is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define strengthening.

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Mending

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Deepening

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Shifting

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Evolving

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