Relationships
What makes a relationship healthy?
We all have a desire to be connected to others and enjoy friendship and companionship. During our life time we will create lots of different types of interpersonal relationships such as those we build with our family, friends, co-workers, and business partners. Or it might be what we call an intimate relationship, which is a relationship between two individuals who know each other very well, sharing emotional and physical intimacy. Relationships begin with you
Relationships begin with you, because you are half of any relationship you join. So how is your relationship with yourself? Are you confident or do you feel bad about yourself? Self-esteem is essential to personal happiness, fulfilling relationships and achievement. A relationship cannot fix a poor self-image it just won’t work. If you rely on anyone to feed your self esteem you will rely on that person to meet all of your needs.
Your relationship with your partner is not all of your life but a part of your life.
Developing a healthy relationship
Every relationship has its challenges, primarily because we are all unique individuals having our own differences, experiences, backgrounds, history, culture, beliefs, expectations and ideas about life and how relationships should be.
Healthy relationships make you feel good about yourself and need the following ingredients to keep them healthy:
- Acceptance - so that you can both be free to be who you are
- Trust – to enable a relationship to grow and flourish
- Listening to each other with care and concern
- Fun and laughter
- Free expression of different opinions and interests
- Freedom to disagree, compromise, talk things through and say sorry
- Freedom to be interdependent, so that you can be in a relationship and still maintain your own circile of friends, family and individual interests
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