Why relationships collapse?

Why do people enter into relationships in the first place?

It's all about self-satisfaction. This includes physical, emotional, or social fulfillment, the lack of which appears to leave a gap in our lives. A sense of emptiness that we try to fill with various acts, including relationships.

We need to get this straight. We are individuals first and then partners. Everyone has a good, bad, and ugly side, and our aspirations are different.

You should be fine as long as you each contribute to the satisfaction, need, and ambitions of the other. Otherwise, it's a house of cards, and it's just a matter of time before it collapses.

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Bleak · 36-40, F

If one fails to accept the flaws of the other partner and never accepts that one can be wrong too, then I guess no need of staying together. Respect is a key factor.

Renkon · 41-45, M

@Bleak Respect is the most undervalued quality in relationship. It's not easy to be in love all the time. However, one can be respectful throughout one's life. Respect is the oar that will keep your relation-Ship sailing.

Bleak · 36-40, F

@Renkon I couldn’t put it better myself. I have witnessed many couples always babbling about how madly and deeply they are in love, but their relationship sounds so bogus to me when they disrespect each other whether publicly or privately.