I know you must wonder what is the similarity between an aching tooth and an aching relationship. Lets start with the aching tooth. Some people, when they realize they have an aching tooth, they right away seek professional help and get it fixed. But some people will say that its not that bad so we’ll wait and see and who knows it may get better. They decide not to tell anyone about it or maybe tell a close friend and then maybe use some home remedy that the friend suggests. It may work for a few days and so may seem that the tooth is doing ok. Then the ache comes back and a little more worse this time round. Eventually gets to a point where there is no other option but to seek professional help. That means either the doctor helps fix the tooth or then it is decided that the tooth has really come to that stage of decay, that it needs to be pulled out so that it does not make life more miserable.
Well isn’t it the same when cracks begin to show up in a relationship. If communicated at the beginning it is possible to reach a solution that will keep the relation together(maybe). But if you keep ignoring and pretending that everything is ok, eventually it gets to a point where you really have to decide if its really working or not and if whether its just best to end the relationship.
So the key being that in any relationship, it is so important to keep the communication going and both parties need to be ready to listen to each other and be willing to make the changes required to to keep the relationship stronger and last forever.
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