Relationships
Good relationships just don’t happen overnight. Like a plant, they too have to be tended, watered, and strengthen from the grassroots level. An understanding between two life partners, parent-children, or employee manager is very essential for formulating a healthy relationship that would stick in tested times. Feelings like jealousy, obsession, selfishness, conditional behavior need to be replaced with fondness, care, sharing values, nurturing, kindness, sacrifice, non-judgemental views, and acceptance of each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Types of relationships
Relationships refer to the association, interaction, and bond between two or more people. During the entire circle of life, we make different kinds of relationships to spend our lives with. Although there can be any kind of relationship based on the type of connection, however, few basic ones are listed below:
- Family Relationships: Our family relationships are formed either by the bloodline (parents & siblings), marriage, and extended relatives. Families come in different forms such as joint families, nuclear families, single-parent families, stepfamilies, etc. Family relationships are usually life long and work on mutual love and respect.
- Friends: People whom we choose to interact with us and accompany us in our journey of life. Friends are people whom we trust, respect, care about, and choose to confide in. There are varying types of friendships, some are close ones, and some last for a short span. Overall, friendship works on principals of honesty, trust, support, and loyalty.
- Acquaintances: These are the people whom we are in touch with daily, but are not our family or friends. They can be anyone from our neighbors, house help, colleagues, people from college, etc. Such relationships work on skills of politeness, humility, respectfulness, and harmony in communication.
- Romantic Relationships: When two people are attracted to each other emotionally, physically and a mental level such relationships are being formed. These can be heterosexual or homosexual. An incredibly strong connection is being observed in romantic relationships as they bond at such a level that they have with no one else. Successful Romantic relationships are built on love, trust, respect, support, acceptance, shared interests, and a desire for the two people involved to share their lives.
Role of communication in relationships
In relationships, the act of communication is vital as it not only helps to meet your own needs but also in establishing long-lasting connections. Some other ways communication is essential for maintaining healthy partnerships are as follows:
- Retention of charm and passion in romantic relationships.
- Effective conflict resolution.
- Getting the type of relationship, you desire and deserve, by an understanding of each other.
- Resolving insecurities and jealousy in relationships.
- Helps to approach any problem calmly.