What are relationships?

• Just the joining of two or more people
• In contemporary terms, it can be simply talking or online chatting
• In normal terms, relationship usually means people are connected or related in deeper sense on the physical, emotional, mental & spiritual levels
• Relationships are perceived & relative terms, so different people feel, think or react non-uniformly to them

Are relationships important?

• I suppose eating, drinking & sleeping are important
• Relationships are no less than those
• In fact, "no man is an island": no person can afford to be completely isolated, so relationships are crucial to be in contact with the community & world at large
• It is also because of the omnipresence of relationships that almost all activities originate from & involve relationships

In what ways are relationships important?

• Almost everything we do involve relationships
• Birth: communal, hospital or family event
• Growing-up: schooling, playing, friends, growing pains
• Adolescence: teenage relationships, puberty, more responsibilities, family & friends
• Adulthood: working, training, travelling, marriage, parenting, finance, socialization, communal, elections
• Old-Age: health, family, social events, teaching, sickness, hospital, friends
• Death: family, communal
• Not only in the above life events, activities & professions involve relationships
• Law regulates, co-ordinates & rectifies relationships, Business presents transactional, working relationships, Education inculcates thinking, learning, training & socializing, Politics embodies governmental, decisional, national ideals & Family nurtures, cultivates, protects & teaches values & caring relationships

Why do relationships form & develop?

• The roots for relationships are almost equivalent to those for motivation, go to here
• Needs: people need others for their needs & to whom to provide the needs
• Cognitive: biologically related
• Reinforcement: people have been trained through experience to develop relationships
• Social learning: people see & learn in the social context (like the boy in The Jungle Book)
• Insight into Why We Love Who We Love

Do relationships end & why?

• Relationships are phenomenal - not that relationships are great, but it is as common as nature itself
• Hence we can analyze relationships as nature itself
• Let's say rain: after a period of drought, water vapour would have accumulated in the clouds that are now filling the sky; under cold-warm fronts meeting or temperature changes, rains start falling; but it does not keep raining; the clouds keep shrinking & winds blow some clouds away; eventually all the clouds are gone & rain stops
• If relationships are like rain & people are the clouds, we can see why relationships get started, flourished, diminished and stopped
• When people come together in whatever ways, relationships are inevitable; when people leave or pass away, the ends are inevitable
• If we connect the starts to the ends and the ends to the starts, what we get is simply a chain of events, a chain of relationships that are repeating in different ways

What is the most dominant relationship & how do we deal with it?

• I'm no sure which type of relationship is dominant as all types have their niches - they are there for what they are
• But if I translate the dominant into essential, we can look at the aboriginal people as they live without the clatter of modern relationships which have their roots in primal societies
• The essential must surely deal with survival - foods, shelter, protection & reproduction
• In modern society, foods and shelter are often provided or earned & protection is by family, friends or government; but it is reproduction that is both essential & tempting for both aboriginal & modern people
• Using the two parameters of sex & love, analyze below

1. No sex, no love: this is a dry & dying relationship, it will reach its end eventually
2. Sex, no love: this is a tiring, exhausting relationship, physically pleasing but mentally suffering
3. No sex, love: this is a mental, spiritual relationship, potentially boring for healthy people & no reproduction
4. Sex, love: this is a complete, harmonious relationship, physically, emotionally, mentally & spiritually nurturing; if carried out in the right way for people involved would lead to a strong, prosperous family