To accept responsibility for yourself means you recognize you have choices. When something goes wrong or is misinterpreted, you can accept the part you played and correct the issue. To respect another person means you accept them for who they are…..not what you’d like them to become. Sharing common interests may bring people together at first, but if not nurtured, it can become just a laundry list of activities or beliefs. There is no meat in it. A promise to create cooperative communication can slip off our tongues easily, but can be hard to maintain. This requires us to attempt to understand the other’s point of view, before we express our own…..even before we think about our own. It is a willingness to be open to another person’s ideas, even though starkly different from ours.
Deep, committed relationships are hard work. They do not just happen with the snap of your fingers. Surface friends, acquaintances, work relationships can be easier. But anytime you want something more profound, you will need to put some work into it. And, it all starts with you. You are the only person you can control.
Think about three or four relationships in your life. Do they contain the four elements mentioned above? Do you act from a sense of integrity to ensure you are true to these elements? If so, great! What can you build on to continue these strong ties? If not, why not? What could you do differently?
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