Do Not Break Up series - Importance and Benefits of Relationships
Do Not Break Up series - Importance and Benefits of Relationships
Besides the most obvious reason which is sexual reproduction, relationships bring numerous benefits. For those who plan to stay single or partners who are contemplating a breakup, the following serves as a reminder that relationships particularly good ones, have many benefits. These benefits (not in order of importance) include:
Security
The primary motive for couples staying in troubled relationships is often due to financial security. Partners stick together (and do not break up) to alleviate their worries of not being able to meet their survival needs, which is a primary human need.
Happiness
Ask 10 people what is the most important thing in their life and in all likelihood everyone of them will rank being happy amongst their top three priorities. Relationships can greatly contribute to people's happiness. Indeed, research have shown that both males and females deem making a new friend, falling in love and getting engaged or married as "happy" life events. Hence, quarrelling couples tend to make up instead of break up because as the song goes "breaking up is hard to do".
Meaning
Many people feel half rather than whole' or incomplete when not in a couple relationship (such as going steady, being engaged or married). It is human nature to require and search for meaning in one's life. Besides other motivational drivers such as religion or career, personal relationships provide a central purpose in most people's lives.
Learning
Couples can learn a great deal from each other based on their prior life experiences, individual skillsets, academic qualifications, career achievements, family upbringing, etc. This learning process can be in the form of actual teaching by one partner to the other or by observation and listening in the course of the relationship. A partner in a less than satisfactory relationship may delay breaking up in order to "complete" his or her learning lessons!
Healing
A trusting and accepting partner can contribute to healing of the other partner's past emotional scars, fears, vulnerabilities and perceived weaknesses. In a healthy relationship, partners can feel free to risk revealing their inner fears, vulnerabilities and perceived weaknesses, safe in the knowledge of each other's underlying love and acceptance of them as persons.
Companionship
Relationships can provide couples with having somebody around to talk to, eat with, play with, travel with and possibly, sleep with. Activities that can be done in isolation may be more fun if done jointly, for example, going for a walk, watching a movie, eating in a restaurant. Other activities, by their very nature require two participants, such as dancing and games such as tennis requiring two players.
Support
Couples support each other by sharing problems and burdens such as in times of bereavement, loss of job, marriage breakup, illness or accidents to their respective family members. Support can be in the form of listening, providing a shoulder to be leaned on, offering sympathy or just being present.
Task Sharing
Having a partner to share the workload or tasks of everyday life is mutually beneficial. Cooking, washing, grocery shopping, house cleaning and other household chores can be done together or by taking turns.
Intimacy
Intimacy between couples goes beyond sexual contact. It includes mutually sharing each other's most personal problems and thoughts and a deep level of caring and commitment to each other's happiness and wellbeing.
In conclusion, couples should think twice or more before breaking up, given the fact that relationships are important and benefit both partners in so many ways.
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