The Bond of a Relationship – I’m 19, I know that I have many things in life that I have yet to experience as a human being. One thing on the other hand has stuck with me since the age of seventeen. That one thing was a special bond that I had with a girl I thought I was in love with. The feelings were mutual for a time, but not long lasting. Nights of holding each other in our arms and peacefully falling asleep, holding hands walking down the school hallways, and being there for one another when problems came our way. It was a bond of trust, safety, affection, and dedication to one another. These bonds on the other hand can be temporary which is why human beings tend to cling to those emotional bonds. It makes you feel alive, it makes you happy, it fills your inner being with a sense of accomplishment and matter. Your partner through that bond allows you to make you feel like you just like anyone else in this world matters, you have a place by their side and nothing will change it. And because these bonds can be temporary that people tend to act indifferent to who they are in order to make sure that bond stays as it should.

The Sacrifices of a Relationship – Because people tend to think about the bonds of the relationship and how special they are, they begin making sacrifices for one another in order to keep that bond. Fear of you and your partner growing apart? You start blocking yourself from other important people in your life in order to try and make more time for your partner. Your employer gives you a promotion but it’s half way across the country and your partner doesn’t want to leave what they have behind? Sure let’s just toss aside a great opportunity to make sure you’re still with the one that makes you happy inside, but for how long? Your partner doesn’t like the friends you’re with so what do you do? You make them understand that there is no one else for you, and that it’s the end of a ten year friendship so you can be happy and feel like you matter. I don’t know about you but some sacrifices aren’t worth that feeling but people still take the risks in order to hope that their bonds still stay strong for a little while longer. I’d rather be me, and sacrifice for what really matters. If that bond is to truly stay cemented in time then no matter what happens and no matter what faults lay in front of your relationship the bond will not break.

The Joy of a Relationship – Getting past sacrificing for one another and the bonds that bring you together, there are perks of relationships and we all know that. Perks are also a reason as to why people might act crazy just to stay with the person they truly love. Wouldn’t you rather spend your nights laying in bed with someone who you know matters instead of laying in bed alone? Do you not have a smile on your face when you look at your wife and kids and little dog scruffy? What about on Christmas day when your girlfriend for the first time opens the first present you’ve ever gotten her. There are always perks that bring joy into a relationship. I don’t know about you but if I had to do something crazy in order to keep the bond I truly wanted I would! Even if you know the bond will not break you have to make sure that routine maintenance takes place. You have to make sure that fire in yours and her eyes stays, and grows. I’m not writing this to make sure you know how to avoid certain things in your relationship. I’m writing this so that we all as human beings understand what it truly means to do what you know is right in your heart, to make yourself, your friends, your partner, and your family happy.

The Hard Times of a Relationship – Where there is joy there is also pain. Believe it or not people do look forward to the arguments and hard times of a relationship. At least I think I do. But why you may ask? It’s because problems within a relationship only help strengthen the bonds if those two partners overcome them. It’s a simple explanation for a complicated process. The more you and your partner talk things over and get through the problems that lay before you the more trust you both have for eachother. The more trust you have for eachother the more belief you have for those bonds to stay in tact. And that is what defines the relationship you and your partner have built.

The Presence of Love Implicates the Suffering of Man – The reason I have titled this article as such is because it explains that when you put so much strain on yourself and your partner to help make things happen and last it forces you to suffer as well. Not everybody enjoys wondering if it will be the last fight you and your partner have. Who knows what will happen when you have realised that person is the only one for you, and you go to them to stop them from leaving your life. Nobody knows, and because nobody knows it’s like playing Russian roulette with the gun pointed at both you and your partner. But what I can tell you is that even though I’m 19 I have a conscience, and I have a heart. I am not blind to the suffering that I have seen through the trials of love, and I am not numb to the pain of being hurt. But I am especially not ignorant to the factors that involve those certain pains. I know that I will personally try until my bonds are forever cemented into the fabric of time. I will hurt, love, and sacrifice for those bonds because I know that I can not live without them for the rest of my life. That is why people may act crazy for love, because it makes you feel alive, it gives you purpose, and it gives you hope. I hope my words allow you to understand at least…what I think and feel about this word called love.