Session 2: Remove Your Masks

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Session 2: Remove Your Masks Alisa DiLorenzo © 2013 ONE Extraordinary Marriage | www.OneExtraordinaryMarriage.com

REMOVE YOUR MASKS

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In a Perfect World You are a perfect person, With a perfect body, Wearing perfect clothes, Married to a perfect spouse, Working at a perfect job, Driving a perfect car, Living in a perfect house, Raising a perfect family. There’s only one problem… Perfection does not exist. © 2013 ONE Extraordinary Marriage | www.OneExtraordinaryMarriage.com

Where Does This Idea of Perfection Come From? © 2013 ONE Extraordinary Marriage | www.OneExtraordinaryMarriage.com

What Is The Impact On You? ● You are afraid to be who you are ● You get to where you don’t know the real you ● You feel lost and lonely even among others © 2013 ONE Extraordinary Marriage | www.OneExtraordinaryMarriage.com

...And Your Marriage ● Your marriage exists on the surface ● You fear sharing your true feelings ● You’re exhausted from keeping up pretenses © 2013 ONE Extraordinary Marriage | www.OneExtraordinaryMarriage.com

Take Off the Masks 1. Commit to being truthful 2. Speak from your heart 3. Share the scary parts 4. Keep your word

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Get Started

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Get Started ● If your marriage was a sport, which sport would it be? Why? ● What 3 activities re-energize you? ● What changes could you make to your room to make it a Love Shack? ● What makes you come alive? ● What blessings have we seen in your © 2013 ONE Extraordinary Marriage | www.OneExtraordinaryMarriage.com marriage?

Chuck & Marilyn a last resort

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The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. -Paul Coehlo Eleven Minutes

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