"Let me tell you a black, black joke about partnership. You never know your partner. You don't.
You know the thing the two of you become, maybe, depending on how deeply you look at things. But you don't know your partner at all.
Think about what happens to you in a relationship. You have this hanging gate and your partner has this or that, they have this connection and you have that connection and this definition.
All of a sudden you have a composite that's a creature that's totally different. And you learn to be that creature together.
But it doesn't mean that while you're that creature together when you're in the aura of your partner that you have any idea who they are.
It's like parents and children, because in many ways we're much more sensitive to that. That's my chart theme for today: Parents and children.
The moment a parent and a child are together in the aura they create together, they stop seeing each other. They see each other within the context of that illusion of what they become when they're together.
If you're unemotional and you have an emotional partner, when you're together you're emotional and you see that partner through the emotional lens. There is no other way.
But it doesn't mean that you see them. You're seeing the "it" that the two of you become. The biblical beasts with two backs; it's another creature."
From Partnership Analysis