The Search for a Lasting Relationship
Have you found it sad, frustrating, and impossible to find an acceptable relationship? A relationship that is healthy, growing in maturity, and not weird or hurtful. Desiring a good relationship is simply a reasonable expectation. A need. However, one is not easy to find. Striving for a perfect relationship is not wrong. Jon Bowers said in his TED Talk (Nov 2017) that we must strive for perfection in all that we do and not be satisfied with just good enough. There is danger in accepting anything less. I have experienced this first hand. Though the tread marks are fading and the stab wounds healed. No, this does not mean that we won't make mistakes. It happens. But rather that we must always learn from them. For these become the stepping stones of continued growth and maturity. Out of this, we can decide what is it that we truly want and deserve out of a relationship. I envy the relationships of some of my friends where ...