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The Key Ingredient To A Healthy Relationship You’ve Been Forgetting
Many couples view themselves as two individuals trying to get the best from the other, but what really makes a healthy relationship is the understanding that both are fighting for the same things.
Every relationship is created with the underlying premise to make the people in it happier; which is why we start a relationship in the first place.
The romance, love, and support all aid that goal in the end.
We know this, but most of us still view the relationship as a fight that we have to win against the other person.
We want to be happy, and sometimes they seem to stand in the way of that.
Most of our relationships end up as a Tug-of-War.
Each side fights for enough love, support, attention, and wants to come out with more happiness, less things to do, or with more value than they invest.
This is because we all view love from our own perspective and forget to remember that there are two people involved in a relationship, each with their own goals, dreams, and ideas of love.
But, because we forget, we begin to tug at each other and hope to get the other person to our side via force, manipulation or with conditions, so that we get everything we want from…