Are You in a Relationship or a Partnership?

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"We often get our wires crossed—the wires of desire and the wires of need. We say we are in a 'relationship' because of a certificate or a shared address, but I often stop my clients and ask: Are you in a relationship, or a logistical partnership?

A partnership is a corporate machine. It manages the college fund, balances the joint accounts, and ensures the soccer schedule is met. It is efficient, but it is often empty. I’ve sat with partners who can manage a household with precision but cannot tell you what their spouse hungers for—body or soul. They are master navigators of a ship that has no destination.

A true relationship is a spiritual sanctuary. It is an intentional, God-ordained connection where two people are 'sold out' for one another. It is built not on the tangible, but the intangible: a marriage of truth, grace, and sacrificial love.

While a partnership is built on the association of being a 'partner,' it is easily infiltrated and publicly traded when the value drops. But a relationship—a relation—is a ship built of different matter. It is bound by the 'truest work' of accountability and deep knowing. You are not a book that needs balancing; you are a soul that needs witnessing.

Take inventory today. Are you running a firm, or are you building a home? Sometimes you have to tear down the office to find the foundation of the sanctuary again."