Our subconscious is a complicated thing. It tends to bunch things together. It's how our mind works to keep things simple. However, this isn't always helpful.

It is typical for the subconscious mind to find it difficult to tell the difference between God, your parents, and your spouse - particularly when it comes to issues related to nurture, love, and care. I am not sure why this is exactly but it could be because they are all things in our life that are there day in and day out. Aspects of our life that we can take forgranted. It could be because we learn from our parents what love should look like. Perhaps this becomes our default definition of how to love and how people love.

This is fine when things are all rosy with our parents, but if we either misinterpret events in child hood, or have a broken experience of love as children we then can find it extraordinarily difficult to give or experience love from our spouse or Creator later in life.  It can leave our relationships feeling dry or superficial. 

This isn't how it should stay. The trick here is a careful revision of the beliefs laid down as a child about these defaults then laying down some new redefining and distinguishing beliefs to help sort fact from fiction and to unblur the lines between what was our childhood experience and what we have in the here and now.

The Mind & God's Love - Joel Young ($10+ Honesty Download)

Have a listen to a message I gave a few years back on the topic for more insight into the topic.