I was sitting in the quiet Dessert House with my good friend and we were talking about personal relationship, on what makes a healthy and happy relationship as well as the different perspectives of guys and girls when it comes to loveship. Yeah, it was a rather heavy subject on a starless Tuesday night, I must say.
We shared our experiences and thoughts, though we aren’t experts in this complicated field. Call it girl talk, heart talk whatsoever, it is this heart-to-heart communication that bonds our friendship of more than 10 years (and still counting). Over the time, it builds up undoubted trust and deep understanding between us, to the extent that we could even mind-read each other at times. It freaks us out too yet we are amazed with our acquired ability.
I had wished my future loveship would be something like this too (with a guy of course).
By communicating with our partner with open heart and mind, we would be able to understand each other better and eliminates the tendency of making assumptions (especially wrong ones!) of what your partner thinks and feels. This is exceptionally crucial in the early stage of a relationship because you wouldn’t want to be slapped with shocking facts about your partner on the first day of your marriage.
Reporting system versus sharing system
In a healthy relationship, couples don’t report to each other. They share and they share details of the their day (both good and bad) eagerly. On the other hand, couples who don’t trust their partner see it as a form of “reporting” that is essential to create a sense of security and assurance. There are couples out there that just don’t share a lot with their partner and yet they lead a happy loveship. Well, if both parties are happy, there’s no issue at all.
Guys usually find their girlfriends too information-demanding (although the opposite happens too), opine that girls like to control the life of others and want to know everything their guy do! Hmm…I couldn’t deny that some girls are true control freaks but I believe there must be some underlying reasons for that behaviour. It could be a personality, lack of security or pure interest.
Personality: It’s either one takes it or leaves it.
Lack of security: This will not be a reason if couples practise honesty and sincere sharing in a relationship.
Pure interest: Best of all. Don’t you love your partner more if he/she is always so interested to know about you? It may sound a little possessive but as long as it’s based on pure interest and not some sort of silly suspicion, it’s a sweet thing actually.
I see myself as a person who loves details and I always share juicy details with my loved one, hoping the same in return. As mentioned earlier, I believe a healthy and strong relationship is largely based on sharing system (not “reporting”).
Honesty + Sincerity + Eagerness + Sharing > Trust + Understanding > Soul-bonding
It takes a second to fall in love, a day to date, a year to wed but a lifetime to find your soulmate.