Over the years, I’ve come to fully accept that any successful partnership in life must ride on compromise—personal relationships need this essential ingredient even more than business relations.
Compromise remains the quintessential tough ingredient in relationships and undermining this would obviously create unexpected romantic chaos—it’s either you would be slaughtered in your sleep or you would one day face a box full of resentment from that partner.
Even if you are lucky to survive because your partner benevolently chooses the latter, you would have to go to Mars and back to be able to settle things and that is if your other half is determined to fix things or has a reasonable mind of his or her own.
There are a lot people must compromise on before a relationship can pull through the many faces—the honeymoon period is pretty easy as the Ice creams and trips to cities like Paris take the lead. But eventually, when reality hits in—that is when the need to pay attention to the compromise box becomes important.
It’s easier to find those elements which must go into the compromise box and by compromise, I am looking at those things which are not necessary great but wouldn’t kill you, so you can live with them and take solace in the other greatness the other partner brings to the table.
It’s pretty easy to find a common ground for most individual ‘bad’ habits and as long as they are not inherently diabolical or can be subjected to change, we ought to pay little attention to them while focusing on those things that brighten the relationship as the backbone of growth and strength.