Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.
I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Relationships are full of compromises.
I definitely believe that if you stop working at relationships, they go away.
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.
When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.
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