Assessing Your Relationship Value
When we enter into a relationship, the expectation is that it will last for the rest of our lives. The unfortunate thing is that time, lifestyles and people change. The hidden flaws and cracks begin to show and you find yourself spending more and more time trying to maintain the relationship. At this point you may need to acknowledge the fact that the relationship no longer suits your needs and you need to do an assessment on the value of the relationship.
A relationship can be a lot like a home, where both are susceptible to wear and tear and both require a certain amount of upkeep. How do you know if your relationship needs to be renovated or condemned? Here are a few tips that we hope will help you in this venture.
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Understanding Women
The key to understanding women is to accept and appreciate that they are physically and psychologically different from men, avoid taking their differences as personal attempts to frustrate the opposite sex, and above all to compromise whenever possible.
Clinical and Medical Psychologist, Michael G. Conner admits, “Recognizing, understanding, discussing as well as acting skillfully in light of the differences between men and women can be difficult. Our failure to recognize and appreciate these differences can become a life long source of disappointment, frustration, tension and eventually our downfall in a relationship.”
“Not only can these differences destroy a promising relationship, but most people will grudgingly accept or learn to live with the consequences. Few people ever work past these difficulties,” he says.
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Understanding Men
“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.” Eight words, that’s all.
But they have made bestselling author and psychologist Dr. John Gray world famous. Oh, add multimillionaire to that!
There is no mystery involved here, however. These words succinctly epitomize the single most important reality regarding men-women relationships: men and women are different. So much so, they could just as well be from two different planets.
Ignorance of these differences is a major source of problems in many relationships. While both women and men will proffer charges of being misunderstood by the other, the fact is that, misunderstanding is often mutual.
What would men say to every female reader, if they could? I’ll speak for us all: “Most women don’t understand us men.”
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