Relationship. Today, that word immediately brings to mind dating and couples. Only if that word is used specifically with another — mother-daughter relationship, friendship, sibling relationship — do our minds shift to a different way of thinking about that word.
There are all kinds of relationships out there. We shouldn’t need to specify what kind of relationship we’re talking about. I don’t think dating should be the first thing that comes to mind when we hear relationship. It’s making the word exclusive.
Here, I renounce the exclusiveness of the word as it’s used in today’s culture. For me, relationship is a word that encompasses all kinds of relationships, not just dating. I’ll be talking most about the kinds I have experience with, which are friend and family relationships, though I may touch a bit on dating. I have more recently entered into the dating scene, and even then we were close friends first.
Throughout my life, I’ve encountered many kinds of people and been in many different relationships, many of which I classified as friendships. Later I found out that many of those “friends” weren’t real friends, and my view was skewed. When I found a few true, close friends I started to see some truths.
As I’ve continued through life, I’ve found more truths about different types of relationships. I want to share those truths here. Perhaps you’ll agree with what I’ve found, and perhaps you won’t. These are my personal observations and revelations. You are by no means obligated to agree with them or take them as truths of your own life. My only hope by sharing these is that I’ll help someone who’s struggling with a relationship.
Like I said before, these are my own personal thoughts and observations. I am open to discussion, and welcome your comments and thoughts. Maybe we can help each other better understand the truths of relationships.
Voice Pianissimo 
You’re awesome 😜😘
Interesting insight, I’m interested to see how you explore this more. 🙂
I like the direction you seem to be heading with this. Can’t wait to see how you flesh it out. 🙂
I would agree with this, especially in groups of college-aged people. It seems like our generation uses the word “relationship” to flag romantic partnerships in conversation.
Thank the lord that we have not completely destroyed the word, “Relationship”. Humanity was created as communal beings and taking a foundation word to how we interact with each other and narrowing it to one meaning hurts our ability to discuss the topic. Good topic.