You have the longest relationship with you. Don't ignore it.

[arunima]

We have expectations from relationships. We invest our time, effort and lots of emotions to make relationships around us work. We have joys, heartaches, heartbreaks, fun, challenges and struggles in relationships. We try hard.
But we often find that one very important relationship gets side lined and ignored in all this. And that's our relationship with our own. And we realise it ( if we ever do) after a long or in a very hard way. Have we ever thought that our relationship to our own self is the longest one that we would have in our life. We have to acknowledge our own importance, existence and cherish ourselves.
Share your story of your relationship with your own self. Do you nourish and cherish it? OR has it got sidelined in the other obligations and relationships?

 

[Teri W]

That's why they always say that learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all. If you can't relate well with yourself and take care of your own self, you would never be able to relate with another person and take care of them.

 

[Nomad]

In order to maintain relationship, a lot of people become hard on themselves. They go into the lowest level of endurance to make sure their relationship does not break. Sadly, if you are hard on your self, even if your relationship does not fall apart, you might be shattered. When you are broken deep inside, not matter how good your lifestyle is or your relationship is, you cannot feel good.

 

[Brem]

In a relationship, each person needs time to themselves I feel. I think it's ideal to take a break from one another, maybe hang out with your friends for a day, allow your significant other to go to the spa for the day, while you do something else. I think we all need time away from one another, because it's good to unwind alone or with friends. Just the same for your partner, because they too deserve a break too.

Sometimes we need to focus on ourselves, and there's nothing wrong about that.