Saturday, April 21, 2012
Healthy relationships are both loving and committed
I have never experienced love outside of my relationship with my husband and thankfully it has always been both a loving and committed one. This is not to say that marriage is easy. People who suggest that it is are irresponsible because they discourage newlyweds who tend to compare their relationships with others. Marriage relies heavily on investments and the benefits follow. In marriage, one should enter with the expectations of giving and hold off on focusing on the perks. That said, I have observed many relationships that lack love and/or commitment. These types of relationships seem to be all around us. Either both people do not fully invest, or one person is left wanting more than the other is willing to offer. In either event these relationships are not satisfying because both parties deserve more. It is only once these relationships foster both love and commitment that they begin to grow and prosper. If both cannot be achieved than serious options need to be considered and the issue should be seriously addressed.
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I totally agree with your post. You have to be committed as well as be able to love to make a relationship work. I've had my fair share of one way streets when it comes to commitment in love. The love part seems to never be the hard part, it's the commitment part that people seem to find quite difficult to achieve. I think it's interesting that you can love without being committed but you aren't really committed unless you love something. There is usually no commitment without passion or love. And there is no healthy relationship that will end up working without both of those.
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