Maintaining healthy relationships

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like without people around you? Or what would you do without your family, friends or partners? Life would become dull and empty, right? These people around you, the ones you work with, or the ones you love, adore and cherish are integral components of your life. You share important relationships with them. Without them, life would be like a pizza without cheese, isn’t it? Maintaining a healthy and cordial relationship with these people is what determines the nature of the bond you share with them.

We share different kinds of relationships with different people in our lives, including our parents, friends, siblings, colleagues, children, and partners. One thing that remains common among all these diverse relationships is the need to maintain effective and clear communication. It is necessary to convey how you feel, what you feel, and why you feel so! Voicing concerns and clearing misunderstandings is always better than remaining perplexed and upset in silence. We often feel that our parents, friends or partners don’t understand us well or vice versa. This is where the importance of communication and voicing your concerns comes into play. Well, all it takes is to sit with the person and talk to them about your thoughts and concerns over a cup of coffee. So, just express and communicate with ease. Trust us! the other person will surely lend their ear to you.

Another key element of a healthy and successful relationship is patience. If we want to see the best in each other, we must be patient. It's important for our relationships to remain healthy and encouraging. It is pivotal to make a deliberate attempt every day to respect your loved one more, so take some time out of your busy schedule and try to understand their needs. Understanding one another is one of the basic requirements of a relationship. If two people fail to understand each other, it may result in fights and lead to disharmony. The level of understanding between two people is also a direct measure of their compatibility. Thus, it is important for people to empathize and understand one another in order to build a healthy relationship.

All the three components, communication, patience, and cooperation are interrelated and crucial for maintaining healthy relationships with the people around us. Maintaining relationships, be it with your friend, family, or partner, should not feel like a burden, nor should it make you feel stressed, rather it is supposed to add to the positivity in your life and be something which motivates you to be a better version of yourself. One of the important elements is accepting differences and cooperating with one another. It may be about accepting differences in opinion, beliefs, lifestyle or personalities. At the same time, we must also understand that this idea of acceptance should not be misused, and that one does not take the other for granted, thinking “they are okay with everything”. Setting healthy boundaries, saying no to someone, talking about how you feel and communicating effectively should be normalized as it would result in strengthening the bond that you have with someone, or everyone!