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The impact of lacking “personal self-presence” on marriage

June 21, 2009

Missing personal presence is at the heart of most marital unhappiness. We cannot offer nor participate in true personal intimacy if we are not present with ourselves. Most of us live with an essentially self-rejecting or threatened attitude towards what is deep within us. Underlying depression, low self-worth, anxious/fearful insecurity, post-traumatic-stress-syndrome, interior quiet desperation, and emotional emptiness commonly occupy our emotional cores. Most of us… (cont) 

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About Orin Borders, Ph.D.

Orin Borders, Ph.D, a psychologist in private practice with a long standing interest in the Marriage-Of-Opposites, is the originator on this site.

Current Project

Commentaries on the Marriage-of-Opposites

  • Chapter 1: The Phenomenon
  • Chapter 2: Final Common Pathways
  • Chapter 3: The Problem Of Nondifferentiation And Developmental Levels
  • Chapter 4: Defensive Presentations – When Appearances Deceive
  • Chapter 5: The Impact Of Gender
  • Chapter 6: The Core- Versus Outer-Styled…Two Differing Projects

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