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February 2, 2007
Communication in Relationships
I can’t believe how some people get themselves into situations where trust becomes an issue. For example, I have a good friend who has been dating and living with the same girl for about a decade now. He lives up in the country and only gets out of the house to go to work and maybe catch a pint with his workmates on a Friday night. He’s basically as good a guy as can be. Yet something has run amok in his relationship that has led to him bailing on me in the 11th hour.
We are heading north for the weekend. I’m actually just going to finish this blog and head out. We’re heading to a friends cottage about 2 ½ hours north of the city. It’s a great cottage that we’ve been going to since we were 16. However, over the past ten years, people have fallen off. They’ve moved away. They’ve grown apart. This is typical of most groups of friends, I’d say. However, every once in a while you reach out and touch base. You try and open up the lines of communication between old relationships. That’s what I did this week. I called a buddy up to let him know that we were heading north. He hasn’t been up since the 1990’s. I gave him plenty of notice. He arranged everything with his girlfriend—or so I thought.
As it turns out, he’s telling me that there are too many women going
up with us and his significant other wouldn’t like that. So three hours
before I leave, we have to switch plans. Communication in relationships
is important. It’s important for friends to communicate and it’s
important for lovers to be open and honest. I guess with him and his girl, it’s
not so much a communication issue as it is trust. However, this little problem
will probably end up damaging the communication between him and I. By that,
I mean there will be less of it. It’s too bad when things change…
Posted by CupidsReviews Doug at February 2, 2007 2:29 PM
