What is the point of finally accomplishing all of your goals and dreams if there is no fulfilment?
The most fulfilling experience that any of us can have is that of a real relationship.
We get hurt in relationship and we get healed in a relationship too.
Studies also show that people value friendships and partnerships over money in life.
The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships so says Five Minute Daily Life Coach.
Everything that is productive comes out of relationships. A love relationship is too often seen as the solution to all of person’s problems which can make their partner feel the unwanted pressure and stress.
First it’s love at first sight, and then over the years you progressively grow apart and take things for granted, loosing the magic.
Linking pain rather than pleasure to your relationship you become ‘emotionally divorced’ long before you hit the lawyers.
Relationships that work are based not on what you can get but on what both parties can give.
A person once told me that it is a good idea to bring what you most want from a relationship to it.
How can I give more love, joy and happiness to my partner? If you think like this then you and your relationship will be in a positive state most of the time.
What you put out does come back ten fold. You have to constantly work at the quality experience and consistently make deposits in the emotional bank account so you have reserves to pull you through if you ever have a rainy day.
We cover relationships in week five of the Learning to Exhale course. Here we go through the characteristics of a healthy relationship and also the characteristics of a toxic one.
We are in relationship all the time in terms of psychotherapy. If you are having a healthy relationship with yourself you will have a healthy relationship with others.
If not, addressing that first, is actually the solution.
Magazines talk all the time about relationships between two people. However we have lots of relationships in life. We have a relationship with other people, our education, our family, our friends, our career and our profession to name but a few.
So having a healthy relationship with yourself is key.
The cornerstone of that is self esteem.
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