ChesneyChrist: Losing your job and gaining weight.
Gaining a job and losing weight.
Exceptions exist. If you find your soulmate you can be as fat and unemployed as you like which is perhaps why it's best that most people never do find their soulmate. And obviously there's a small minority that really needs to gain weight, and another minority where getting the sack could be the best thing to ever happen to you. In real terms that job was holding you back.
Decent_Love: What are the things that make your relationship/marriage stronger?
Being authentic and 'knowing' who you are marrying Feeling free to be oneself Trusting each other Believing in the other Sharing responsibility Allowing space for mutual growth Emotional intelligence Owning ones flaws Loving self and loving other and loving the merging of self with other Amongst other things
Although marriage/relationship can be weaker or stronger due to many reasons but I think "Trust" is the only thing that keeps love alive. When trust is broken, love dies and there is no meaning of marriage or relationship in the absence of love.
Selenite: Being authentic and 'knowing' who you are marrying Feeling free to be oneself Trusting each other Believing in the other Sharing responsibility Allowing space for mutual growth Emotional intelligence Owning ones flaws Loving self and loving other and loving the merging of self with other Amongst other things
Selenite: Being authentic and 'knowing' who you are marrying Feeling free to be oneself Trusting each other Believing in the other Sharing responsibility Allowing space for mutual growth Emotional intelligence Owning ones flaws Loving self and loving other and loving the merging of self with other Amongst other things
Hey there--please don't take what I have to say in a negative light--it's not meant to be--just some observations of my own..(I tend to agree with 'Spungy'--
1. We don't always know who the person is we are marrying/partnering with. We may think we do..but.. 2. Feeling free to be oneself--yes, one must retain individuality. 3. Trust is too often arbitrary. Too many differences of opinion of the meaning.. 4. Believing in the other. (see #1) 5. Responsibility is more arbitrary than trust. Each party has a different idea of just what 'responsibility' is 6. Mutual growth is harder to figure out than nailing Jello to a tree-- 7. Emotional intelligence changes with the situation. (Triple doctorate people have melt-downs) 8. "Flaws" are arbitrary--some folks will defend these are just personality traits. 9. Amazingly, it does happen....!
Hmmm, aren't we asking a bit too much here?! If one had failed in marriage then they contributed to it too. One way or another. Same with relationships.
Ten_of_cupss: Hmmm, aren't we asking a bit too much here?! If one had failed in marriage then they contributed to it too. One way or another. Same with relationships.
Your point is well-taken. There is never just one side.
rohaan: Your point is well-taken. There is never just one side.
Isn't it true, Ro... I wonder why the deman list never featires:
1.I have to change this and that in my behavour... 2.It would be helpful if I do more of ... so and so...
It kind of makes you think why it's never "I", who has to do some work on themselves. And I don't mean flattering critique like: - Not to fall in love so quickly or forgive so generously and give too much... Blah., blah
Ten_of_cupss: Isn't it true, Ro... I wonder why the deman list never featires:
1.I have to change this and that in my behavour... 2.It would be helpful if I do more of ... so and so...
It kind of makes you think why it's never "I", who has to do some work on themselves. And I don't mean flattering critique like: - Not to fall in love so quickly or forgive so generously and give too much... Blah., blah
Ten_of_cupss: Hmmm, aren't we asking a bit too much here?! If one had failed in marriage then they contributed to it too. One way or another. Same with relationships.
Absolutely ... Anything I wrote goes both ways ...
Ten_of_cupss: Isn't it true, Ro... I wonder why the deman list never featires:
1.I have to change this and that in my behavour... 2.It would be helpful if I do more of ... so and so...
It kind of makes you think why it's never "I", who has to do some work on themselves. And I don't mean flattering critique like: - Not to fall in love so quickly or forgive so generously and give too much... Blah., blah
Very useful thinking. And... that is why "just be yourself" often won't cut it.
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What are the things that make your relationship/marriage stronger?