Healthy Relationships Essay

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As humans, we are constantly building relationships with others and meeting new people, but sometimes it 's hard to maintain a relationship with another person, when only one person is engaged in it. All healthy relationships or friendships should be based upon the concepts of caring, supporting, and spending time with each other, and if one person is not able to provide these concepts towards the other person, then the relationship quickly becomes one-sided.
Caring for the other partner is one of the most important elements of any healthy relationship. I am always trying to find ways to spend time with my freind , Isabella, but she just always seems to find the perfect excuse to ditch out on our plans at the last minute. I asked her if she would like to go to the Creekview football game, and she said she was down, but …show more content…

It’s basically the equivalence of not having a friend. I’ve asked Isabella to hang out with me many times, but she always says she’s really busy and can’t make it, and i 'm understanding towards her situation, but it becomes so consistent, that I begin to wonder if she actually is busy. Of course, I have a choice to not put as much effort into the friendship or just simply end the friendship, but I would much rather give her a chance and see how far the relationship lasts on current terms. After all, I don’t completely know what goes on in her life and whether she’s doing this on purpose or not, so it would not be fair to her to just end the friendship on my behalf. I’ll always be the one who tries to work things out in the relationship and compromise with what we have until there is nothing left to work with, but it gets beyond irritating when her lack of effort is more noticeable as our friendship

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