"Relationships constantly call us to create, express and experience our higher self and higher vibration. Relationships never truly fail except in the human sense where the relationship didn't give you what you wanted. Every relationship is a stepping stone to truth and more love. Relationships change or fail when entered un-consciously.

As Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God) says.... 'People enter into relationships with what they can get out of them, rather than what they can put into them. Love is not a trade...For most people love is a response to need fulfillment. I'll trade you what I have if you give me what you have. If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation...an opportunity for growth, for full self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about your self,' ...your relationship will grow and expand.

If we have a different agenda or attachment, or have not found a voice to express needs this can breed resentment. Having a voice is necessary to get clarity and to make your needs known. When the time comes that we finally have a voice it may be embraced with the angers and resentments of our past and woven with the pain of our own self-doubt, fear, disappointment and hurts that were shoved away. All of our relationships can take us to new levels of our self expression and every relationship is a gift.

Take care of your barriers to loving more by releasing the negativity that may stop you from moving deeper in you. With clarity and our open heart.... our voice will compliment our healthy, wise inner voice."

Colleen Hoffman Smith