Intrinsic Commitment and Emotions
A viable relationship has to be a fair balance of giving and receiving, according to the relationship deal. I can only last, if both partners feel satisfied with the relationship.
Entries 262 and 98 are about the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic commitment. But there are some more differnces:
A viable relationship has to be a fair balance of giving and receiving, according to the relationship deal. I can only last, if both partners feel satisfied with the relationship.
Entries 262 and 98 are about the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic commitment. But there are some more differnces:
- How the satisfaction with the relationship is measured.
- If and how information about satisfaction or dissatisfaction is conveyed and shared.
- How a partner handles dissatisfaction.
Extrinsic commitment is based upon the balance of material and practical benefits and services. In extrensic commitment, the compliance of the deal or the dissatisfaction of the failure thereof can easily be claimed and evaluated. If a man demands a specific service or benefit from the woman, no matter if by agreement or by his entitlement delusion, it is easy to specify and to blame her for what he did not get.
A man, who considers the woman as a commodity, has the power to bully her to do and to comply with what he wants. Bullying it the man's method to deal with his dissatisfaction, that the woman does not agree to be a commodity. She has only the power to leave, and that is, where his power ends.
Bullying as a love killer (entry 294) therefore only happens, when the bonding-disabled man establishes extrinsic commitment. Bullying happens, when either the woman wants intrinsic commitment or accepts extrinsic commitment, but as a fair deal and not as his commodity.
The man remains ignorant, that the woman's dissatisfaction is caused by the imposed role of a commodity, he is deaf to her complaints and blames her dissatisfaction instead upon her alleged flaws. Bullies are unable to trust, that makes them such a hazard. The man does not trust the woman, he never believes any of her statements about her feelings, he cannot be influenced to alter his using her as a commodity. When she tells him, how much a specific behavior is hurting, he believes, that this behavior cannot hurt anybody, because it is his entitlement. He attributes her feeling hurt as her own flaw and continues his hurting behavior. Her pain accumulates, until the relationship has no more value for her and she leaves.
Intrinsic commitment is about emotions, the relationship deal is giving each other the feelings of wellbeing in a safe haven. Nothing can be gained by power. A man can never bully a woman to love him. If he wants to be loved and his wellbeing to be cared for, he can win her good will only by treating her the way she needs and wants to be treated.
The conscious measurement of satisfaction with the relationship is the perception of pleasant and unpleasant emotions elicited by the partner. While extreme emotions are usually visible, more moderate emotions are often not visible on the outside, but have nevertheless a significant impact upon a person's general wellbeing. This impact can accumulate. A person can feel either content and happy or hurt most of the time, but this can be hidden from the awareness of the person causing these emotions. Therefore sincere communication about the true innermost feelings is the only way to find out with certainly, if the partner is satisfied with the relationship. This means to ask, to listen and to trust, that the other tells the truth.
Each partner evaluates the relationship very subjectively by what he feels. These emotions are real and valid, they are the true measurement of the quality of the relationship, because the only purpose of intrinsic commitment is to be more happy and less unhappy than alone. The partners can compare notes about the dynamics of their behavior, but the emotional reactions are subjective. People can react very differently to the same experience. What is extremely painful for one person can be of no significance to another. In this case, the subjective experience has validity, no matter, if the cause of the experience has empathy, understanding and insight or not.
Therefore intrinsic commitment requires absolute trust in the truth of the other's declarations of how he feels, and it requires taking everything said for serious and at face value. It requires to ask and show interest in the emotional reactions of the other as a result of the own behavior. Intrinsic commitment is the never ending endavor of making each other perceive the relationship as emotionally beneficial.
Whenever a woman tells a man, that she feels hurt because of a specific behavior of his, he knows that he needs to change the behavior. If he continues his hurting behavior and she reaches the point of feeling more hurt than happy, then the relationship has become worthless for her, and she has no reason to stay.
A sane, decent and mature man in intrinsic commitment is aware of these basic facts:
Bullying as a love killer (entry 294) therefore only happens, when the bonding-disabled man establishes extrinsic commitment. Bullying happens, when either the woman wants intrinsic commitment or accepts extrinsic commitment, but as a fair deal and not as his commodity.
The man remains ignorant, that the woman's dissatisfaction is caused by the imposed role of a commodity, he is deaf to her complaints and blames her dissatisfaction instead upon her alleged flaws. Bullies are unable to trust, that makes them such a hazard. The man does not trust the woman, he never believes any of her statements about her feelings, he cannot be influenced to alter his using her as a commodity. When she tells him, how much a specific behavior is hurting, he believes, that this behavior cannot hurt anybody, because it is his entitlement. He attributes her feeling hurt as her own flaw and continues his hurting behavior. Her pain accumulates, until the relationship has no more value for her and she leaves.
Intrinsic commitment is about emotions, the relationship deal is giving each other the feelings of wellbeing in a safe haven. Nothing can be gained by power. A man can never bully a woman to love him. If he wants to be loved and his wellbeing to be cared for, he can win her good will only by treating her the way she needs and wants to be treated.
The conscious measurement of satisfaction with the relationship is the perception of pleasant and unpleasant emotions elicited by the partner. While extreme emotions are usually visible, more moderate emotions are often not visible on the outside, but have nevertheless a significant impact upon a person's general wellbeing. This impact can accumulate. A person can feel either content and happy or hurt most of the time, but this can be hidden from the awareness of the person causing these emotions. Therefore sincere communication about the true innermost feelings is the only way to find out with certainly, if the partner is satisfied with the relationship. This means to ask, to listen and to trust, that the other tells the truth.
Each partner evaluates the relationship very subjectively by what he feels. These emotions are real and valid, they are the true measurement of the quality of the relationship, because the only purpose of intrinsic commitment is to be more happy and less unhappy than alone. The partners can compare notes about the dynamics of their behavior, but the emotional reactions are subjective. People can react very differently to the same experience. What is extremely painful for one person can be of no significance to another. In this case, the subjective experience has validity, no matter, if the cause of the experience has empathy, understanding and insight or not.
Therefore intrinsic commitment requires absolute trust in the truth of the other's declarations of how he feels, and it requires taking everything said for serious and at face value. It requires to ask and show interest in the emotional reactions of the other as a result of the own behavior. Intrinsic commitment is the never ending endavor of making each other perceive the relationship as emotionally beneficial.
Whenever a woman tells a man, that she feels hurt because of a specific behavior of his, he knows that he needs to change the behavior. If he continues his hurting behavior and she reaches the point of feeling more hurt than happy, then the relationship has become worthless for her, and she has no reason to stay.
A sane, decent and mature man in intrinsic commitment is aware of these basic facts:
- The emotions of a woman are real, true and valid for herself, no matter, what others think or claim that she should feel.
- The woman's evaluation of the relationship is based only upon her own subjective emotions, as she experiences them.
- Disagreement, claims, denials, accusations, interpretations can influence and distort, how the man perceives and interprets the expressed and declared emotions of the woman, but he cannot influence, what the woman subjectively feels.
- If the man wants to influence the emotions of the woman, he can only change his own behavior, that causes the emotions. If he wants her to feel happy, he has to treat her well.
- The only way to make a woman stay in a relationship of intrinsic commitment is to treat her in a way, that causes her to feel happy, and to abstain from all behavior, that hurts her.
- A woman has no rational reason whatsoever to be or to remain in a relationship, where she experiences more pain than joy and happiness and the pain is a result of the man's behavior.
- Pain caused by hurting behavior cannot be annihilated or compensated with any other benefit. Such pain can only avoided by stopping the hurting behavior.
The jerk or the emotional moron asks, how good he feels because of having control over a woman as a commodity.
The wise man asks, how good he can make the woman feel, when and because she is with him.
