“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”
~ Deepak Chopra
The keyword here, my friend, is denied. We all have our shortcomings — some more prominent than others. But it’s the ones that we deny about ourselves that bother us the most when we see them in others, especially those closest to us.
It’s those we interact with regularly, like our partners, that knowingly or unknowingly become our biggest teachers. They’re there to show us what we’d most like to change about ourselves.