Introduction

Good day to you everyone. I welcome you to another great and beautiful week. I hope you had a great week last week. My name is Kehinde Micheal and my username is @msquaretwins here on this platform. In this post I am going to be writing about Building a Relationship.

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Building a Healthy Relationship

When you hear about relationship, what comes to your mind? Boyfriend and girlfriend love? Marital partner? Relationship is more than that. Relationship is a way you relate not only with your finacee or finance, your family member but with everyone you have dealings with, your family members, your neighbors, friends, coworkers or colleagues at work, religion members etc.

The way you relate with people around you will determine the kind of support you get from them. While relationship is not meant for demanding from people, but there is no way you relate well with people around you that they will not come to your aid when you are in need physically, emotionally, spiritually or materially.

Now the question is that how do you build a strong and healthy relationship with people? How do you build a lasting relationship? Or how do you fuel a relationship?

To build a healthy relationship that is strong yet healthy you must;

• Develop Core Values: Many enter a relationship whether at work, business relationship or relationship in the community without any core value or principles. This is very bad. If you don't have anything guiding your life, you will not enjoy any relationship you entered. If you don't stand for something, definitely, you will fall for many things. It is good to have core values for your life and let's people you are relating with know what you stand for. If a man knows what you stand for he will respect you for that.

• Set Boundary: We often make mistake of not setting boundary for relationship. Boundary is very important in any relationship. What is the exact thing I must not accept in this relationship? At what stage is the relationship not healthy again? What is expected of us to do and not to do in this relationship? Setting boundary will help you to keep a relationship healthy.

• Communicate the Issue: Relationship without good communication will not last. When commutation is lacking in a relationship, the relationship will not go smoothly. In relationship communication helps to trash out issue between or among the parties involved. Don't assume, communicate.

• View Things not only in Your Perspective: Good relationship involves the parties involved to bring suggestion and things to the table. You must know that different things like suggestion, idea, dream etc will be talked about at every point in time. To build a healthy relationship, you must not always stand on your point, you must also see things in others perspective. Opinion of others in a relationship with you also matters. Don't discard idea or suggestion. Welcome ideas, suggestion and opinion of others.

• Be Patient: One of the things that keep a relationship healthy is patience. Many are not patient enough to relate with their neighbors, colleagues, family members and friends. Everybody has different temperament and characters. Hence, we are not wired the same way. To build a healthy relationship, you must be aware of this. When matter arises, you must be patient enough to solve it. Even when you are right, you still need to be patient. Often times, impatience can make you to be on the wrong side, meanwhile you might be right.

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Conclusion

Building a strong and healthy relationship requires that you use your energy to make it work. You must welcome ideas from people who you are dealing with. You must be ready to sacrifice for that relationship. Don't always been on the look out reaping from the relationship. After all , a healthy relationship should be give and take. But I will advice that you should focus mainly on give. Those who build a strong and healthy relationship never focus on the "take" of "give". When you do the points listed above, you can be certain of building a relationship that is healthy and strong.

Thank you for reading