The Role of Honesty in a Relationship
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The Role of Honesty
The Role of Honesty
Every relationship is based on trust. We buy a car trusting that the manufacturer has done a good job and that the vehicle will run according to the specifications prescribed. We buy foodstuff from the market believing it is pure and healthy for our bodies. We may not realize it often, but trust is something that we practice almost every single day of our lives. Society and life in general cannot go ahead without this basic element in a social relationship. We need to trust one another and others need to be worthy recipients of our trust. In other words, people whom we trust need to reciprocate by being trust worthy. When people betray our trust, it becomes very difficult to bear the emotional consequences that go with it.While trust is important for any relationship, it is more so when it comes to the relationship between couples. The amount of trust between spouses or fiancés in a relationship is one of the more important ingredients in the glue that binds that relationship together.
When a wife can trust her husband or a man can trust his fiancé, and they continue to act in a trustworthy manner towards each other, that would go a long way in making the bond between the two extremely strong. This is one of the reasons that there should be total honesty from the very beginning of the relationship. Right from the start of the relationship, the two should be totally open with each other. It is easier to be frank and forth right from the beginning than to hide and lie about some of the not-so-pleasant phases of our lives.
A spouse or fiancé would like to hear it from you rather than coming to know of it much later from some other source. They would not only find it extremely disturbing, but also ultimately stop trusting you. Therefore maintaining honesty from the beginning of a relationship is vitally important.
Continuing to be trustworthy is also an essential trait to maintain a good relationship. The husband should be totally confident about his wife. The wife should also be absolutely sure about the integrity of her husband. This kind of trust does not come easy however. It takes a lot of effort and commitment on both sides to maintain this high level of trust. Sometimes it would require a considerable amount of sacrifice to maintain this level of trust. Take for instance the case of extra-marital affairs. Such episodes become possible in people’s married lives because one spouse decides to break the commitment that they made with their partner.
Marriage vows mean nothing to many people. They say ‘For better or worse’ at the altar, but when something better comes along, they break their promise and proceed to gratify their own lusts. Sentiments such as these might seem out of fashion these days, but solid relationships stand on these old-fashioned pillars of trust, commitment, faithfulness and love whether we like them or not. And it all begins with honesty in a relationship. Pure and simple.
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Honesty plays a very important role in building and development of a healthy relationship. An intimate relationship is always marked by intimate exchanges. In intimate relations, both the partners should try to remain honest towards each other. These relationships develop over time and cannot be built up in a day. There are many different kind of intimacies which the partners can share. Verbal intimacy occurs when a partner shares deepest secret with the other. Behavioral intimacy occurs when one partner allows oneself to be seen before the other in revealing ways that are designed to attract the other partner sexually. Some intimate exchanges are both verbal as well as non-verbal. As a result of this, each partner can know and understand each other and their respective actions. This is a must to have in any relationship and any relationship is strengthened when a partner knows the other really well.