These are some common experiences that brought us to RCA.
If you recognize yourself or your relationship in any of these patterns, you may find hope and healing in RCA:
- Do you feel it’s safer to be unhappy together than risk being alone?
- Do you find yourself avoiding intimate time with your partner by staying busy with other people or activities?
- Are you afraid to be truly honest with your partner about your feelings, thoughts, or actions for fear they might leave?
- Do you hide or medicate your feelings through compulsive behaviors rather than expressing them?
- Do you mistake complete dependence on each other for love?
- Do you struggle to ask for what you need in your relationship?
- Is physical intimacy the only way you know how to be close?
- Do you either avoid your problems entirely or feel solely responsible for fixing them?
- Do you believe you must agree on everything to have a good relationship?
- Do you feel you must share all the same interests to be compatible?
- Are you more focused on appearing to be a “good couple” than being authentic?
- Have you lost the ability to play and have fun together?
- Do you argue about small issues while avoiding deeper feelings and concerns?
- Do you find yourself blaming your partner rather than looking at your own part?
- Do conflicts either escalate out of control or get swept under the rug?
- Are you struggling with parenting issues?
- Do you feel shame about your relationship?
- Do you see yourself repeating unhealthy patterns from your family of origin?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are not alone. Many of us came to RCA with similar struggles.
Through working this program together, we’ve found new ways to communicate, build trust, and create the loving relationships we desire.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to remain committed to each other and to work on building a healthy relationship.
We invite you to attend a meeting and see if RCA might help your relationship too.