Giving the silent treatment is considered relationship abandonment
July 2, 2009 |11:00 | Relationship By : Team X
You decide that you need some personal time, maybe a little vacation to clear your mind and relax a bit. Without calling your boss or telling your co-workers, you depart for your escape and spend the week completely cut off from the world.
How do you think your boss would react? Not so well. Do you think this is grounds for termination? Of course. Would you ever do this? No way. We all know that in order to take a break from work, you discuss it with your boss beforehand. You don’t just run away. We value our jobs, we don’t want to lose our jobs, and have respect for our boss and coworkers. Running away and abandoning our position is never an option.
Why would this be any different with your relationship?
Many times, people pull away from their significant other because they just need a break or a little personal space to decompress from the stress of every day life. Having this need is perfectly natural. It is even encouraged within long-term relationships to spend time apart on occasion.
What is it about this type of drink that causes people to become attached to it? What is it about alcohol that is so much more difficult to handle than say tea or milk? Could it possibly be that there is the huge possibility of an addiction coming to the surface; an addiction that even those who are faced with the problem can't identify? So if one knows that one could possibly be at risk for dealing with such an addiction, why put one's self into the position of having to deal with an uphill battle against the odds and alcohol? This question is even more apparent when it involves two people in a relationship. When the dangerous consumption of alcohol (and by this I mean the too frequent consumption to where it seems you have to have it just to make it through the day) in the middle of a relationship, things can become pretty rocky. I have personally known and watched many couples battle over the issue of one in the relationship being an alcoholic. So what do you do? If you're the one in the relationship loving the alcoholic but not the alcohol, then its hard to say. After all, we always hear that the proper way to love someone is by accepting them as they are no matter what, but what happens when this ideal, unconditional type of love becomes too difficult to do?
In any relationship meeting the parent is a big step and very nerve racking for the one who is meeting their partner’s parents. It should be in some ways because these people have raised your partner from birth to adulthood. They know him/her better in some ways that you have little insight into yet. In other ways this should be a moment to celebrate and embrace. Meeting the parents is an important step to making this relationship permanent. Your partner wouldn’t bring home just anyone; instead he/she would bring home someone special – you. Remembering that piece of information should help you relax enough to plan the perfect meeting. Here are some great tips to help you along the way.Do research:
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The sixth task of establishing a good marriage doesn't sound like a task at all: managing a good sex life. And, the newlyweds may think, we've got that down just fine, thank you very much. But as a marriage progresses, children come along, life intervenes, and things get more complicated. Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee, authors of The Good Marriage, define the sixth task as "to establish a rich and pleasurable sexual relationship and protect it from the incursions of the workplace and family obligations."
