A Warm Welcome to this Forum by name of Our Relationships!

This is a place to exchange thoughts and ideas to global friends. No abuses or hurt please!

We are here to talk anything related to Relationships, Life, and the various feelings and emotions that add color to our life. Feel free to post your messages and do let your friends know too!

The following words of Bonaro W. Overstreet, on Relationships has inspired me, provoked me to think deeply and I feel it would hold true to any one who reads and understands it!

"We grow as our relationship grow. I believe that such portion of the psychic universe as is housed in me - that is, my person, myself - will be frustrated and distorted in its growth to the extent that to others as I would have them do to me is not simply a law of duty, it is also a law of health, that we violate at our own risk. When we violate it, we injure ourselves; inhibit our powers; blunt our sense of reality; condemn ourselves to fear, guilt, and hostility, and progressively isolate ourselves from our human kind, so that we feel alone and under threat

Where my relationships to others are soundly growing, I am growing. Where they are halted in their growth, I am halted. Where they are twisted in their growth, I am twisted in mine.

This belief about human involvement's lead to another; that self-respect and respect for others go together. I do not believe it is possible, except superficially, to think well of them and ill of ourselves. Our attitude towards ourselves and towards others is one: it is our attitude towards human nature.

As an extension to this, I believe the best situations for us to live and grow in are those geared to equality; equality of respect; equality of rights. I do not believe we can attain our psychological stature, our real human stature, either by leaning on others or by trying to outdo others and gain power over them. I am for the level of equality and the cordial look of friendliness between man and man."

"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."

- William Lyon Phelps

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