Practicing Patience in Relationships

One of the best things you can have in a relationship, whether it is with a friend, or a family member is patience. Patience is one of the key ingredients to love, and love is essential to a relationship that works and lasts.


Love is a motivator, and a powerful one. With the love that patience inspires you have the key to so much more in a relationship. Love motivates us to work harder to be kinder, to learn more, to do more, and to grow more in our relationships. This means having the satisfaction, gratification, and joy that is found in deep, meaningful, and lasting relationships.


Patience will help you respond positively in a negative situation. Negative situations arise, and often, in relationships. When you are that close to someone, and expose your weaknesses, it is easy to exploit those and have negativity, but when you practice patience, it allows you to not overreact, or do something you will later regret, instead it helps you to be calm and positive.


Impatience brings out the worst in other people. It causes people to overreact, and act foolishly. If you are impatient you inspire negativity in others. This can't be good for relationships. When you are impatient with someone you cause them to bristle. Their defenses go out, and they go on guard, and pretty soon, instead of being rational, and discussing things, and moving forward in your relationship, you get in a shouting match where hurtful, stupid things come out.


Patience stops problems in their tracks. It is hard to be angry with someone when they are patient with you. It is hard to yell at someone when they won't yell back. When you practice patience, you inspire patience in others, which leads to problems having no foothold in your relationship.


Patience makes us wise. If you are patient, you do not blurt out things you will later regret. It allows you to have a complete picture before you act, and thus you act far more wisely. Who doesn't want to be wise in their relationships?


Patience fosters peace and quiet. Patient people do not run around causing havoc. Patience in relationships allows you to grow love because it creates the peaceful quiet environment needed for that love to grow.


Patience allows for human error. No one is perfect, if you practice patience you will recognize this, and thus allow those that you are in a relationship with to be human. It is amazing what this will do for a relationship. When you recognize their humanity, and thus propensity for error, you stop expecting perfection, and start loving the person, flaws and all. If you have ever had someone accept you for you, you know how powerful that can be, and how much of a bond that can forge in a relationship.
Relationships where both parties see the human in the other person are far stronger because it takes more than a misunderstanding, or a few harsh words to ruin the relationship.



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