RELATIONSHIPS

Human beings live in communities interacting with many members of society. That interaction forms relationships. How important it is to form relationships can be seen in most magazines. Just look at the amount of articles dedicated to how to have better relationships. Humans need to have interpersonal relationships to live in society and contact with humans is needed as a function to validate them as a person. When talking about the shooter in Virginia Tech, the media described him as a loner, without relationships or interaction with people, as a clear example of dysfunctional person. It is not common for a person to isolate from society and relationships.

One of the notes in the textbook was the ‘austistic society’ by this term the book refers to that society at home with computers but disadvantaged when it comes to establish human intimacy. I do not question that definition but one could also see it from the point of view that is another way to establish human relationships, many marriages today started by establishing a relationship on line. I want to see as another way to interact with humans through technology.

One of the hardest thing in a person’s relationships is the termination of one caused by death. Ending relationships is never easy and sometimes the need of an expert is needed to help a person go through the grief process.

The characteristics of an effective relationship help me organize what is important in human interactions. They should have enjoyment, acceptance, trust, respect, mutual assistance, confidence, understanding, and spontaneity. I could add that those characteristics should be experienced by any person involve in a relationship. Another essential point in relationships is that they evolve. Many times we forget that part and that could damage the relationship. The same friendship, love that a couple feel when they get married is not the same twenty years later, that relationship evolves with time and could be as strong and pleasant as the day they got married.

Relationships are alive and very different depending if we refer to friendships, romance, family, and work ones. Good communication is one of the important factors in all those interactions.