Anyone can
agree with me that if there is anything that has become such a complicated
science, it is relationship formation and maintenance. Human beings are described
as social animals and relationships drive the agenda of our very own existence.
How happy we are and how successful we become will very much depend on the type
of relationships that we get ourselves in to. Perhaps the most complicated of
all relationships is marriage which may explain the reason why there are tales
of divorces happening every day at an alarming rate. Like many of us would like
to believe, the problem is not because this generation does not value marriage
as such, the main problem with this generation is that we have young men and
women who have got no clue how to found, build and maintain relationships.
What I seek
to do for you today is show you some ways in which you can turn yourself in to
your own relationship expert and hopefully keep way from a marriage therapist
and relationship expert, because these people will ask you to pay so that they
can show you how to do what you can do on yourself………not that I have anything against
them, …. I swear. Point number one that you need to understand is that:
All healthy relationships
begin as a cordial friendship in which either party are willing to accrue and divulge
benefits that are beyond materials gains. Before entering in to a relationship,
there is need for one to assess their needs for relationship based on these
questions;
a) What do I need from this relationship
and how am I going to get it?
b) Am I getting what I need, if not why?
c) What do I need to give in order to get what I need
and do I have it?
d) Can I count on the other party, and
can he/she count on me?
e) If I woke up tomorrow and my life had
ended, will I regret entering into this relationship? And if it were so for my partner,
would he/she have any regrets?
f) What does he or she need from me?
g) What attracted me to her/him? And are
these points of attractions permanent or temporary?
h) Is s/he part of my future plans and
dreams or is he/she an inconvenience.
i)
Does
he/she add any value to me and if yes what value do they add to me?
j)
Am
I adding to him/her any value? If yes what value?
Answer these
questions as honestly as you can and if your answers to all these questions are
positive, then you are on the right path if not, you need to stop and take a
breather.
One of the
reasons why I insists that you should seek that you become your own relationship
expert is that, you cannot ask other people to see the goodness in your own
personal choices, because if you can’t see anything good in your own choices,
stop putting the rest of us to unnecessary task, you made a mistake and maybe
you should take a step back.
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