Relationships

What if your own feelings about a relationship are more important than how others feel about the relationship?

You can never change someone else. You can only ever decide how to think and behave way yourself.

Think of all the objectionable relationships in which you’ve participated. What’s the ONE common factor in all of them? That’s right—you!

If you’re ever in an unfavorable relationship, or the relationship isn’t going your way, remember that the only thing you can ever do is change your role in the relationship.

Now think of all the positive relationships in which you’ve participated. What’s the ONE common factor in all of them? That’s right, you!

How others feel about a relationship IS important to be sure, but not as important as you interpret the relationship. You are the ultimate arbiter. How you feel about a relationship with another person will ultimately inform and guide your relationship – and that’s the only part of the relationship that’s in your control.

Of course, the same is true from their point of view as well.