I see it all the time: couples caught in an ongoing pattern of trauma and conflict, struggling to be heard and desperately hoping to restore the intimacy they once felt.
Learning to put yourself first and how to really receive love and healthy reciprocal energy and ending the cycles of self-sacrifice and over-commitment to what doesn't nourish you. You may also be releasing attachments to the material world in some ways to free yourself for new experiences that are in greater spiritual alignment.
It may be a surprise to you just how strong a grip possessiveness and attachment to events, people, and situations have had in your life. The impact of these attachments is profound.
When your emotional body is holding onto old hurts, unfair circumstances, and people, your physical body can correspond with holding onto health problems and troubles in other areas of your life.
Examine your strong attachments because they just may be the thing that's holding you back. To bring healing and progress to your mind, your body, your relationships, or your finances, release those possessive attachments. Finding ways to create more healthy attachments and at some point not needing to have attachments at all. This mindset will free you from disappointment and unwanted stress.

For generations, therapists have worked to answer that question. The truth is that people come together (and grow apart) for a variety of different reasons.
When two people feel secure and are in a healthy relationship - whether they're in a romantic, platonic or familial relationship - they experience a deeper level of trust, intimacy and mutual connection.
Yet, as therapists, we see too many people who are stuck in the painful patterns of an unhealthy relationship.
We see the complexity, the messiness, the constant exhaustion, isolation, passive-aggressive behaviors, control, conflict... we see when people can't communicate or move forward... they stay stuck or they just give up.
It's hard to help two people in a relationship where there are significant issues and conflict, espeically when one (or both) partners have experienced trauma and have conflicting attachment styles.