Eve has been living with her partner for 8 years. At 39, she is tired and discouraged. The cause? Everything about the couple's social life - including holidays - rests on their shoulders, she says. "I'm more than tired of being the service tour operator and I'm seriously considering stopping, not planning anything," sighs Eve. In her entourage, she is told that she exaggerates, that her partner, finally, is always going, always agreeing with her proposals. So sometimes Eve thinks: "Maybe deep down, I'm too demanding, I don't know..."
Within the couple, it is not always easy to differentiate between a legitimate requirement and an excessive one. For Violaine Gelly (1), integrative psychopractitioner and existential analyst, "it is from the "defusion" of love that characterizes the early stages of the relationship, that one must clearly express to the other his needs, welcome his family in return and then find a modus vivendi ...
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