How to navigate a relationship where your partner does not want to grow. It's one of the most

common reasons that people give for breaking up. And if you're in this situation right now,

I'm going to give you the spiritual perspective on what you can do if you find yourself in that

situation. And if you happen to be the partner who's being accused of not wanting to grow and you

want to keep your relationship on the rails, I'm going to offer you a helpful suggestion for doing

so at the end of this video. So the first thing we want to understand about this idea of spiritual

growth is that from the ground level perspective, it may appear as though some people want to grow

and some people have no interest in growing. And maybe even some people are doing the opposite

of growth. Now, as spiritual people, we like to zoom out and look at everything from the broader

30,000 foot view. And not just understand it intellectually, but we want to be

able to embody and integrate this perspective in everything that we do. And so when you're observing

life from that broader perspective, it starts to become more and more apparent that we're all

on a growth trajectory, whether we realize it or not, whether it looks like it or not,

whether people understand it and appreciate it or not. And from that broader view, it looks like

some of us are taking the active growth route, while others of us are taking the more passive

growth route, which means we're not actively choosing

to take ourselves out of our comfort zone and into our growth zone.

But just from living normal life, inevitably we get yanked out of our comfort zone for various

reasons.

Maybe it's because we got sick.

Maybe it's because we experienced a loss.

Maybe it's because we experienced some other change or

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