Someone convince me

@stacyv81 (5903)
United States
February 23, 2007 10:54am CST
Someone convince me why any one should be in a relationship? Every one who I know or have heard of who are past the 5 year mark, are divorced, broken up, or if they're still together they have cheated or had some other huge obstacle to face because of their partner. Why even set yourself up for that? If you never had it you couldn't miss it and bad relationships set you up for other bad relationships. What is the point?
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@olaff123 (433)
• Namibia
24 Feb 07
Relationships are pretty much like having a car. You have to fill it up, service it, clean it and all that, and you will get flat tyres, the battery will need replacing, it will break down. At some point you most probable will replace it with another model (newer, more desirable, whatever). But would you want to live without one?
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@LiminaL (164)
• Italy
24 Feb 07
is not really possible to know how is it going to work out + brain and understanding (that is going to finish anyway) aren't enought to prevent the relationship to start. a person might wont to live the experience for what it gives time by time. what I find more important is the quality of the time spent together, even thou it will end after some time. What is absolutely important instead is to start a family with kids very responsibly
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@crazy_me (588)
• Philippines
24 Feb 07
Do not be afraid to love and be in a relationship just because you know many people who have been hurt because they loved. And even if you have been hurt, that is still not a reason to avoid relationships. Every relationship is unique. Though the ending could be similar to the ending of other relationships, what happens in the relationship is unique. Your love for one another and the things you both do for your relationship are different from those of other people and from your past relationships. Though relationships that end in break-ups have bad memories, there will always be some good memories too. And you will always learn something from every relationship that you will have. I have always believed that it is better to love and be hurt than to never love at all. So open your heart, love, and let yourself be loved too. You might ask, "What if he/she will only hurt me?" Then I will ask you too, "What if he/she won't? What if he/she is really the one or you? What if this time it is for keeps?" :)
• Philippines
24 Feb 07
If you are in a relationship it is not mean that your setting yourself to that kind of relationship..When We are going to enter something like that, We dont knoW What Will happen in the future..it may be bad or good! No harm on trying, if We arent successful then..let us charge it to experience...even if it hurts!It's lesson to be careful then in our next step.
@harwoodkp (285)
• United States
24 Feb 07
I am going to be truthful to you. Being in relationship is not easy. It is not easy, because the merging of two different souls seems to resist it. Eventhough things are not easy, I can not even imagine being single again. Me and my wife have been together for almost 8 years now. All I can tell you, if anything ever happened to my wife, I dont know if I Could continue on my own. It would be like half of my body being torn from me. I would continue, because we have a son, I would do my best for our son. On a finale note, There is nothing wrong with being single.
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• United States
24 Feb 07
I have been married for 27 years and wonderful ones too. Many rocky roads at times but I wouldn't trade it for the world. He is my best freind. We have 2 wonderful kids and on grandson. Who would want to miss grandkids. We had our share of fights but we always made up afterwards. I sure don't want to be alone in the world when I grow old. I want to grow old with him. If you don't work at something it is not going to work. I know of many times that I was ready to quit but I didn't and glad I didn't Life throws you many curves and you have to stick with what you have. If you don't want a relationship then don't but you don't know what you are missing
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@stacyv81 (5903)
• United States
24 Feb 07
I have a relationship...for 5 1/2 years, with two wonderful children, but we have had so many rocky patches and he questions it so much, that I just don't know when enough is enough. I love him with all of my heart and soul, and I want to grow old with him, but I just don't see why relationships are so hard.
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@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
24 Feb 07
My ex and i was together for 4 years and he turned out to be a real a**hole. However for the past year - me and my bf have had the most wonderful relation ever and even if it ends tomorrow I will always have the memorie of it to treasure.
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@Mickey76 (78)
• Romania
24 Feb 07
I don't think that prescriptions for everybody are good. Every human bean must walk on his own path.
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@shywolf (4514)
• United States
24 Feb 07
I don't know if I can convince you, but I know that for me relationships are all that matter. Yes they can be hard, and should always be hard work in that you should always put your heart and soul into making each other happy, because relationships are not a one way street, they should always have time and care and thought put into them every single day, but to me there is nothing, absolutely nothing more worth it in the world than love. I wouldn't even want to live in a world without relationships and love. To me, making another human being happy is one of the most beautiful things in the universe, and I won't feel complete until I find that person who feels the same way about me, who will want to make me happy every single day as well. All I can tell you is that when you find the right person, it won't be hard, it will be easy. Please don't give up. We all deserve to be loved.
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@ntejani17 (742)
• Pakistan
24 Feb 07
One day when i was in my school my best friend Fahad was sitting with me and we were dicussing about friendship. But when my friend saw me that i was taking with fahad he call me and said that he is not nice guy. He convince me to break my friendship. He do this bcoz he hates fahad sooo much and one day i asked him why do u hate fahad and he told me i dont hate him but from his expression i got it. And one day i came to know why he hate him and from that day he was convincing me to break my friend ship.
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• India
24 Feb 07
Life is unpredictable.there are lots of ups and downs in one's life but that doesn't mean that we should start blaming relationships. if the oxygen of a relationship, love, is there, no relationship can take a bad shape. i personally feel that taking your partner for granted is taking your life for granted. and when you do that life becomes a bi**h.
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@jnash_79 (34)
• Philippines
24 Feb 07
For me there are probably distinct reasons why some relationship ends in separation. One factor is that maybe there is not enough love to support each other. There are situations where a couple falls in love, but because of certain circumstances finds out that they don't want to be in that situation so believes that separation would be the answer- like those ending in divorce. There may be some reasons relating to infidelity as well. Maybe the guy or the girl found another someone who has the attributes whom she/he does not see in his present partner, so ends up cheating because he/she is not brave enough to break the relationship soon enough with the partner.
• United Arab Emirates
24 Feb 07
Well that depends on whther you like a person a lot or not. but i guess bad relationships are a lesson. something to learn from.
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24 Feb 07
Well hun im sorry to hear you havent found the wright person yet but thing of the fun you can have finding them. Ive been with my partner now for 17 years and its still fresh my be im a lucky one but keep tring you will find him or her.
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@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
24 Feb 07
well...some says its better to love and lost than not feeling it at all...being in-love is the nicest feeling you could not describe like walking in a clouds and always looking forward to another day of your life..it makes you glow and alive all the time...you still gonna miss it..its impossible not feeling it..it is a natural feeling among us..those who people who dont feel it ..maybe their heart is made up of stone..or they jsut make it that way..so that they cant feel what love really is..inspite of bad outcome in a relationships we still dont stop ourself of being in-love for another man hoping that this it will be the right time or man..we learn from every relationships that we had ...and it will always be like that...dont tbe so radical in opinion..ok..its love who makes the world so bright and worth living for...
• United States
24 Feb 07
it's not about convincing you about being in a relationship, i think it's a personnal choice to be in one or not, i personally have a beautiful relationship. i've been with my husband for 12 years. we have a 4 month old and we are very much in love with each other. i think it has a lot to do with honesty, communications and learning to better each other. i think that me & my husband have a great relationship. we talk every night, we have a very open communication. i think that is the key to our marriage, he could tell me anything, even things that weill get me upset or thing that i don't want to hear, but we work out things in a grown up manner, we do not disrespect each other, we don't yell at each other, and we are understanding to each others need. it's hard to maintain a good relationship, but if you're both willing to make it a better realtionship at all times. you could live a very happy life as a couple!!
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• Philippines
24 Feb 07
I will not try to convince you to enter into a relatioship but I will just give some insights that will enlighten you a bit. Entering in a relationship is a helpful thing. The experience you may be able to get from that can help you to grow as a person. Experience in a relationship is a great way to develop your sense of maturity and sensibility, if and only if you'll learn from the mistakes that you commit because of it. I can say that having a relationship is a good training ground for individual to overcome many fears and trials in life. Almost all aspects of life is touched and developed by the experience brought about by relationships. Getting into a relationship is just a matter of choice. If you choose to be in a relationship, it is not because of outside factors but because it is your will and it is what you want. You should not enter in a relationship just for the sake of simply having one, but because it is what you believe is right and can add happiness to you. Entering in a relationship should not be done because it gives you sole happiness but because it adds to the happiness you already have. Relationship doesn't complete you. Instead, you complete the relationship. That should be the thinking that you possess and consider in entering a relationship. Failure in a relationship should be a lesson for people concern. It is a matter of choice. They can choose to leave the relationship or stay with it even you are having a hard time. Those people that choose to stay doesn't have some skeptical thinking about the situation. Or they are just being stucked up or confused of the things that they should do. Their growth has been suppressed because of it. And it is considered as a bad factor in the relationship. Partners should not maintain that kind of perception. The good thing of having a partner is that it motivates you to attain things in life. It makes you eager to grow individually, independently or dependently. You always have a hand for your partner because you feel the need to supply it to him/her, may it be emotionally, financially, morally or spiritually. And most importantly, you do it because you want it to.
• United States
24 Feb 07
My husband and I will be together for 5 years in June, and married for 2 years in May. And there is no end in sight. He is the right person for me. This time, I didn't settle. I wanted the man for ME, not because I felt I needed to be married or in a realtionship. I wanted a man who would love and honor and appreciate me, and tolerate and put up with all the crap that I dish out. I found that man. I believed that I would, and there he was. I met him online, through a dating website. The first email I sent to him was on his birthday, which is 4 days before my own. I never considered dating someone in my own sign (I'm a gemini and I figured there was already enough Gemini to last for quite a while, but I was so very wrong) but it working wonderfully! If you don't believe it'll happen, then it won't, and no matter what I say will convince you otherwise.
@paulsy (1263)
• Philippines
24 Feb 07
Relationship isn't something you get just because you want to have a "relationship". You don't go out, take a look at the very first person you see, and then tell yourself "I'm gonna have a relationship with this person.", right?. It just comes naturally. And when it does come, it's not just you alone to decide whether you would have the relationship. The other person would have to make the decision, too. Since you are already aware of the common situations involved in having a relationship, the thing is to really think well and be ready for whatever may come in the course of time, right? You have to admit that there are relationships that do work out. Other people decide on having it because they are either willing to face whatever it takes, or are ready to make another decision if it all doesn't work out the way they hoped it would. And if it didn't work out, the point is they gave themselves the chance to be in love. Ever heard of the saying "it's better to have love and lost, than never to have loved at all."?
• United States
24 Feb 07
My husband and I have been together for 11 years straight (married 6). We have never broken up and never cheated on each other. We have been through some stuff that was pretty bad my miscarriage, my gastric bypass surgery, and his hand injury. Through all of this we have always supported each other. Don't get me wrong I in no way think that we are perfect or anything. We fight just like everyone else. I do think that if that is what you are looking for, perfection, you might as well give up. No one out there is going to live up to all you expectations. People are flawed and you just have to accept that.
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