You’ve done Me Wrong

Google this title and you will see a list of the top 75 country songs about broken relationships.  Whether you like country, jazz or popular music you have heard hundreds of songs that describe being out of relationship.  Without exception these songs lack one common theme...an apology.  So what is the first thing we should do when we fail in a relationship?  We need to fess up, take responsibility and apologize immediately. Just do it!  Don’t wait as every minute will cause the damage we have caused to go deeper and deeper and will make the recovery more difficult.    

(To be continued.)

Great Expectations

One relationship killer is the unrealistic expectations we put on others.  Consider the kind of behavior we expect of others and then take a hard look at the way we sometimes act.  Other people are just like us.  They make mistakes and can be insensitive.  Their wrong actions hurt us and our’s hurt them.  But just like we want to be given a break by others when we blow it, we need to extend that same grace to them as well.  Most relationship fopas are not calculated but are just sloppy behavior.  Let’s agree to give people more room, be less sensitive and not expect perfection.   

(To be continued.)

How Can You Have More and Longer Lasting Relationships?

Humpty Dumpy Had a Great Fall

The other morning as I made breakfast one of the eggs didn’t make it from the refrigerator to the frying pan.  As it is with eggs, it didn’t bounce and come to rest intact but instead went everywhere on the kitchen floor.  Relationships are the same way – very fragile.  As we strive to make our relationships last, the first thing to come to grips with is that relationships are easily broken.  Like my egg, they lack resilience.

(To be continued.)