{"id":41029,"date":"2012-02-26T16:50:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41029"},"modified":"2012-02-26T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:55:59","slug":"can-you-teach-anything-to-your-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41029","title":{"rendered":"Can You Teach Anything To Your Spouse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Alexander Technique teachers can&#8217;t teach family members. They can&#8217;t teach their spouse. They can&#8217;t teach the kids. There&#8217;s too much emotional baggage.<\/p>\n<p>But some can. Why? What enables some teachers to teach their lover? What makes some relationships open to this kind of learning?<\/p>\n<p>In what things, are you open to learning from your spouse?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of girlfriends. Many of them have been open to learning from me in some things and many of them have not.<\/p>\n<p>The ones who aren&#8217;t open to learning from me invariably have contempt for me (and for any man in their life).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not open to learning from your spouse, I can&#8217;t imagine that you&#8217;re in a good relationship. <\/p>\n<p>PS. Here&#8217;s where I <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.alexander90210.com\/pictures.html\">link<\/a> to my working with some bloke from my training and then I go on about how my spouse is open to my instruction because we have such a great relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Alexander Technique teachers can&#8217;t teach family members. They can&#8217;t teach their spouse. They can&#8217;t teach the kids. There&#8217;s too much emotional baggage. But some can. Why? What enables some teachers to teach their lover? 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