Throughout history, in all forms of literature, writers have lamented over the problems experienced in relationships. This category contains song quotes that refer to the hardships and experiences of troubled, struggling, and failing relationships.
What may be some of the root causes of troubled, struggling, and failing relationships? The entertainment industry advocates the propaganda that self sexual gratification, aesthetics appearance, social status, and excessive materialism are the most important aspect of human relationships. They probably do this because these appeal to people’s primal instincts and result in generating them lots of money. Though primal instincts are real, a relationship built on these elements is guaranteed to collapse eventually because they cannot support the weight of life’s challenges.
Perhaps the long-term success of relationships has more to do with: real love based on appreciating the inner beauty of the person; having mutual respect for each other as a person; trusting and believing in each other; having maturity to recognize the level of commitment necessary to make the relationship work; working as a team to overcome obstacles together by accepting roles and looking out for the others personal needs and making sacrifices everyday; having open and honest two way communication; being each others best friend and companion and sharing interests; creating balance in one's life by having interests and friends outside of the relationship; and putting forth a strong continuous effort throughout the entire relationship like they did when they first started dating.
There are no absolute guarantees in life that a relationship will not have its challenges. In the end, all one can do is to put all the factors in their favor, work at it, have faith, and hope for the best.
Is self sexual gratification, excessive materialism, social status, and aesthetic appearance the most important aspect to a relationship? Or are real love, respect, commitment, teamwork, honest and open communication, friendship, balance, and persistent effort?