09/15/2015
How to Have a Good Relationship:
How to have a good relationship is not so mysterious! It isn’t a matter of luck, or the whims of the fates whether you have a good relationship, or even what God has planned for you, though He does have the last word! The question is “how?” And, by any scientific point of view, how to have a good relationship is in your control!
So let’s work backwards. Let’s start with what you would like to think God has planned for you. Even though you have free will … hmmm, you still have to do your part, and that is where we are going with this. Your part is very important in how to have a good relationship.
Friendship Is The Basis for How to Have a Good Relationship. What God’s wants for us. Unless you are a person who believes that God is a prison warden, and that Earth is where all us “bad” people go, you probably will agree that God loves us all. When we think of God as a ‘loving’ parent, which makes the most sense, we logically conclude that God wants us to be happy. We could also assume He wants us to feel His love, because that is the best connection to Him. Don’t think of this as “religious” per say. Think of it as common sense.
Most of us connect these dots, intuitively. After all, He took the time to create us, and all of creation. Why would He want us to suffer? To me it would be weird to imagine God wants us to feel bad, to torture us. And, although I hate to presuppose anything, it seems pretty logical that He loves us, and He wants us to be happy. Not only that, but He knows our happiness, our best happiness, comes from unconditional love. So it would seem, then, that He made everything as a ‘set up’ for our happiness. We just have to think things through, before we impulsively do things that make us miserable. Our free will allows us choices, and we make bad choices; sometimes. But when you take charge of any aspect of your life, and apply wisdom to your decision making process, your choices usually produce the results you intend. Is this too deep? Because if you think this is too deep you will never have a good relationship. Relationships are deep! From what I can see, all of our suffering, in fact, only occurs because we don’t pay attention to God’s orderliness, and the natural laws, that makes creation orderly. We lose ourselves in false promises, called temptation. This is the message in every scripture, and it makes sense. Selflessness is at the core of How to Have a good relationship. One of the natural laws for happiness is to share love (in different ways for different relationships), which is ‘selfless’ behavior, but we defy our own happiness, by acting selfishly; which causes natural repercussions. Don’t you think that is true? When you act selfishly, the person you are with, and your relationship, suffers. The other person will be insecure, and maybe even scared to trust you. If we pay attention to His natural laws, and follow them, we will have more fun, and connection, than is humanly possible!
This isn’t a demand for morality, as much as it is an understanding; that selfishness will come back as painful experiences, as surely as walking off a cliff will find you on the rocks below. Some people call it karma; right? The next questions are:
1). What constitutes a good relationship?
2). What are the natural “laws” that govern a good relationship?
3). What should I do, to do my part?
How to have a Good relationship means to create an ‘internal satisfaction’. That internal satisfaction can come only in two forms. There is psychological satisfaction caused by material gratification, which is satisfaction of a material need; for food, safety, or shelter etc. Or, it can be a “spiritual” satisfaction, which is feeling “love”. Love, and connection, are the real grand prize! No matter what else we may crave, or desire, when offered unconditional love, any normal person will choose unconditional love over material pleasure. Do you agree? You can imagine various scenarios if you would like, and I’m pretty sure you will agree.
How to have a good relationship is based on expressing love! You can see, it is very simple, really. A good relationship is one in which love reigns supreme. But… you may say “Sure, everyone knows that”, and knowing that hasn’t helped me have a good relationship, so what good is it? And you would be right, that everyone knows a good relationship is based on love! But, not everyone knows the natural laws that encourage love are how to have a good relationship. Nor do people consider the actions that discourage love, even though they know about them; and this is where the rubber hits the road! You have to do 2 things if you want to have a good relationship.
1). STOP doing selfish actions, and
2). Start doing selfless, loving actions.
One must study relationships, including the sciences around love.
Step one: Recognize that only a serious study of relationships will help you. A few tips here and there are not going to do it. There is too much to learn to get it in a blog, or you need to study relationships; as if your happiness depends on it. Your happiness depends on you learning the natural laws of relationships.
Step two: Start studying! You cannot get an education in law by reading pamphlets from law schools, and you can’t learn enough about relationships by reading blogs from relationship experts. You need to take the time, and put in the energy, so you can have a good relationship by efficiently using the natural laws of relationships. There is some work to do, for many. To have a good relationship, you have to have the right knowledge about expectations, behaviors, communications and the like's. The PathFinders is a great, not just good, source from which to gain the relationship knowledge you need, it is the best source! Scientific relationship knowledge’s ultimate usefulness is that you will have a great marriage, but even if you are not married, you still need to understand the principles of, and natural laws which define a good relationship.
You will have a good relationship, if you want one. But just wanting one is not enough. You have to learn the science of relationships...