Relationships Top The Charts!
One huge disconnect through centuries is that we are into relationships because it's something we want to, whether it's a romantic. familial or traditional relationship, relationships we form with people are vital to our mental and emotional well-being and even our survival. True, we humans have an inherent desire to be close to other people. YES, Relationships Top The Charts!!!Let's hear it from the experts who claim that social support is a very important part of being a human, and therefore, WHEN social relationships break down OR are damaged, it can have a big impact on our mental health and well-being. And they add that it SHOULDN'T come down to just one relationship. One psychologist declared that "IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOT FOCUS ON TRYING TO GET EVERYTHING YOU NEED FROM ONE RELATIONSHIP"📗📙📘 Instead, we are encouraged to focus on having a network of social support with a variety of different types of relationships to hold up our well-being and even quality of life. And I agree that a positive relationship can be shared between any two people WHO support, encourage, and help each other physically as well as emotionally. And here's WHEN thing can get tricky because 'healthy communications' can have a thousand versions. Instead: - Understand WHERE the other person is coming from.
- Be willing to hear someone even if you think it's untrue.
- Listen WITHOUT preparing your rebuttal OR response
Collating how I witnessed from my 'observation deck', let us consider the following proven good practices: - LISTEN to each other WITHOUT pre-judgments
- REMEMBER relevant details about each other
- MAKE TIME for each other. It's a MUST-DO
- Work COLLABORATIVELY [not individually]
- FOCUS on a mutually beneficial relationship
- TRUST and RESPECT each other, period
- ENGAGE in healthy activities TOGETHER
Our takeaway here: Pooling all our needs, wants and likes, NOTHING beats RELATIONSHIPS but if there is one thing often missed out is that, unlike the airborne flights, after building up and reinforcing the foundations of a RELATIONSHIP, you CAN'T leave it at that, to fly on auto-pilot mode because all these RELATIONSHIPS will remain in a work-in-progress mode [even at the peak of its strength]. Once you loose your guard, the very robust foundations can gradually waiver and weaken till it crumbles. Yes dude, RELATIONSHIPS TOP THE CHARTS!!!
