'Being happy alone is good, being happy together is better'
Many people get into relationships for the wrong reasons or with the wrong attitude. In fact, many people are not ready to get involved in loving relationships. Often people are desperate to find someone to love them and do not really understand why their relationships never seem to work out. Very often, the reason they can’t manage to keep healthy relationships is because they try to find love from the wrong people or in the wrong places.
A well-balanced relationship is made up of two givers or at least two people who would like to be givers. So what is a giver? A giver is someone who gets into a relationship with the intention to give love. A giver never gets into a relationship with the intention to receive but with the intention to give love only. So if two people give to each other, the beautiful result is that they both become receivers. These types of relationships are very strong relationships because they are overflowing with love. They have two powerful sources of love: their self-love and the love of their partners, which they do not expect but receive anyway due to the giving nature of their relationship. The great thing is that a giver always strives to be a giver. So in the unfortunate event that one of the partners feels down, he/she becomes a receiver but only for a short time. Momentarily the other partner can provide love for both. The relationship can then survive whilst the temporary receiver goes back to his normal self and is in the position to give again.
Unfortunately, most relationships don't work that way! In fact, many people get into relationships with the intention to receive love but have no love to give in the first place. The reason they don’t have love to give is because they try to get love from other people and don’t try to find love from themselves. These kind of people I'd like to call 'takers'. A taker is someone who doesn’t have self love, someone who depends on other people to be happy; they get in relationships with the intention to receive love only.
Many relationships are made up of one giver and one taker, those types of relationship tend to work for a while, they have their ups and downs but after a while they usually fall apart. They usually work as long as the giver within the relationship is a strong giver, as soon as he/she experiences hard time the relationship falls apart, because the source of love has been cut down. If the taker within the relationship has no self-love and the giver cannot give love because he/she has temporarily become a receiver, then the relationship goes to chaos because the love is gone.
Obviously, it is not either black or white; everybody has a bit of a giver and a taker within them. The aim is to try to be more of a giver. You do not have to be a 100% giver to enter a relationship but you have to get into a relationship with the intention to become one. If both partners do that, the relationship will improve drastically because both understand that they shouldn’t blame the other for the lack of love within the relationship. They understand that everyone has to play its part to give love.
Hence the importance to work on yourself, on your personal development to make sure you have enough self-love, self respect and understanding of yourself so that you can share the love.
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