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Since a relationship is always a work-in progress kind of thing, boundaries need to be worked on time to time. What does that say about respect and love - which is more important?
Since a relationship is always a work-in progress kind of thing, boundaries need to be worked on time to time. What does that say about respect and love – which is more important?
We usually come across a lot of jokes on married couples where women are always the butt of joke. Men usually enjoy such jokes but the lines get crossed when you publicly joke about your partner in front of a group of friends or relatives.
The one cracking the joke might find it amusing, but the other one might feel disrespected and humiliated. The other one might not publicly show their annoyance, but might definitely feel offended and disrespected.
Well there certainly need to be some boundaries which shouldn’t be crossed. If your spouse doesn’t like you publicly pointing them out for certain things, for eg. table manners, you need to respect it and avoid doing it. If you keep on repeating it, they might feel disrespected.
Since a relationship is always a work-in progress kind of thing, these boundaries need to be worked on time to time.
They say for any relationship to work, love is the most important thing. I would like to slightly modify this statement. No doubt love is a crucial factor for a relationship to sustain, but respect is an equally important thing. You feel loved when you feel respected. Both go hand in hand.
But this doesn’t mean that one should not criticize or express dissatisfaction. Of course you need to do if you want things to work. But instead of doing it publicly and making the other person feeling humiliated, you could discuss it privately expressing what you dislike. Communication is the key. The more you communicate in a positive manner, the more things will run smoothly.
The idea of respect differs from person to person. For instance, one may not like to share the password for emails, phone and social media accounts because they like privacy but if their partner is of the belief that “what’s yours is mine” theory then things might take an ugly turn. The one who does not like to share passwords might be accused of being highly secretive, after all if there is nothing to hide then why not share the passwords? The other partner might feel disrespected as they both have different perspective for same thing.
If you feel respected, you will feel loved. Respect is as important as love to have a long lasting relationship. If you respect each other, that love will never fade away.
Image source: a still from the film Thappad
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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