Nurturing a healthy relationship
A healthy relationship is not easy and does not happen just by itself, it needs a lot of understanding and efforts from both the people involved in the relationship. When I say relationship, it is just not about romantic ones, but any relationship. Every relationship has it's own challenges, whether it is of parent, child, spouse, sibling, friend or any other, the quality and the length of relationship depends on how much one is willing to hold it together and up to what length can be gone.
One of my very good friends, she has cut off from her sister since a very long time due to some family issues, and I have been trying to make her understand that she can resolve her issues with a heart-to-heart communication with her. But somewhere she is not willing to do that. Blood relationships are not with choice so all the more it becomes difficult to cut them off. And in my experience majority of the relationships I have seen break off over money matters, except for romantic ones, which are in a different league.
I believe that an open communication is one of the most important factors in a successful relationship. The moment you are not able to do that means you are opening up paths for creating more misunderstandings and creating trust issues. Life is so simple first of all, we can talk and sort out all the problems, but we choose to make it more complicated by talking in our head then talking to the person, and talking in the head makes us go crazy.
Mutual respect is very important in any relationship, even if the person is younger to you. One cannot mistreat their children and get away with it or expect that when the child grows up, the child will have respect for the parent. The child will give the same thing what he or she has been given in childhood.
A good relationship needs a lot of nurturing, love, empathy, compassion and trust and mutual respect for one another, else it is always possible to doom the relationship in bitterness and misunderstandings. I have also faced it in my life with some people, but then I believe that they were not very important for me and it was ok to let them go away from my life. For the ones that matter to me, I would go to any length and make things work between us.
Relationship is all about how you make each other feel, the statement feels very simple but it takes a whole lot of efforts to prove it.
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