One of the things that I’ve been working through in therapy is the weight that I give to the Martyr archetype. I have, in many ways, a martyr complex. This week, my task is to kick around thoughts about the Warrior archetype as a possible way to counterbalance the Martyr.
One of the things that I’ve done for a couple of partners in the past is to go through The Short Instructional Manifesto for Relationship Anarchy paragraph by paragraph and describe how I feel that resonates with me and with my relationship to that partner.
I was getting ready to start a series of blog posts here where I went through the manifesto and talked about each paragraph. But, hey, one of the things you will hear most multi-romantic/non-monogamous people say is, “In addition to these people, I am also in a relationship with myself.” So, what better way to frame these manifesto posts than Martyr-me describing to Warrior-me how the manifesto resonates with me and applies to our relationship.
So, those posts will be forthcoming over the next week or two.