Interestingly, when a couple is getting married, it is said that both will enter into a union. But in reality, if there was no union beforehand, this union would not be successful. Marriage is a union, but so too is courtship and the stage of friendship. If, as friends, there is no intention to understand each other, courtship will not make us seek understanding, much less the process of engagement. The engagement process is a high emotion process. Two people have to unite their tastes, to which someone may have to give in, but both have to try to understand each other even more than before.
To have a successful friendship, we have to understand the other person as a friend. Furthermore, when you are preparing for a wedding, faced with so many opinions and emotions, even more effort is required to understand your partner. At the same time, the level of intention to understand your spouse is even higher when you know that a baby is on the way. Again, there are stages in life that require even more understanding.
At every stage of our life, understanding is present. However, the level of effort required to understand someone, be it a family member, your spouse, or a friend, changes. In fact, effort changes when there are even more emotions involved. And emotions are not destructive, but they have to be confronted with logic, evidence, and truth. In this way, although the events of the moment stir up emotions, logic says that we cannot be someone who simply lives on feelings; the evidence tells us that if we let ourselves be carried away by our emotions, we will not prosper.
Emotional understanding is required to have long-lasting relationships, whether a marriage, friendship, mentee-to-mentor, or business-related. As each relationship grows stronger or apart, we must be willing to understand and study why it's working or why it didn't. Study your habits, the habits of those around you, the trajectory you're taking, the vision you've established, the battles you've faced. The only way to show yourself approved and become knowledgeable is by studying.
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