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Too Many People Miss the Point of a Romantic Relationship
Because romance is so driven by sex, psychology and neurological processes, people fail to see the light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to loving someone.
When you get right down to it, that’s essentially the work of a lifetime. Not only do we strive to love our romantic partner, we also try to do this for our family, friends and ourselves. If we have enough to do it for strangers, we get called a saint.
We can tell that love is the key here. However, when a couple eventually runs into problems that they have to work on, they do it because they want to be seen as the happy, healthy and damn near perfect couple. They cannot bear going back into the dating market and so they must figure out a way to stay together.
As individuals we often want to appear as flawless as possible to others and unfortunately, we take that same attitude into our relationships.
The irony is that if people were more honest about how they feel and what they struggle with, this would foster better relationships because we could all be real and just relax because the greater irony is that most of our problems stem from how we think others will judge us.
For example, if you really have lost attraction to your partner because of weight gain, do you really think it is a…
