All relationships add up to 100%. <\/p>\n I learned everything there is to know about Madonna \/Elvis \/The Beatles. <\/p>\n Same with my car, my Television, my ‘partner’, and almost every thing in my life. <\/p>\n I not only have to cajole you to go out, I also have to find a place to go \/movie to see. I have to figure the timing and ways to reorganize my time so we can finally go out, and you say, “Fine, whatever, I don’t care where we go \/what movie we see.” <\/p>\n For things to change put more effort (or <\/em>less<\/em><\/strong>!)<\/em> into that relationship and see how quickly it happens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ————————–<\/p>\n These are related:<\/strong><\/p>\n 11<\/strong> Feedback<\/a> – 27<\/strong> Responses<\/a> – 30<\/strong> Ever-changing Relationships<\/a> – 36<\/strong> Prime Time<\/a> – 55<\/strong> Oxygen<\/a> – 71<\/strong> Nice<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All relationships add up to 100%. Relationships work best and last longest when they’re balanced. I learned everything there is to know about Madonna \/Elvis \/The Beatles. My desire is to have a 100% relationship with him \/them. And their desire is also to have a 100% relationship with me. Only their 100% is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-relationships","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentaldoodle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRelationships work best and last longest when they’re balanced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nMy desire is to have a 100% relationship with him \/them.
\nAnd their desire is also<\/strong> to have a 100% relationship with me.
\nOnly their 100% is about a million times less<\/strong> than mine!
\nSo their idea of a balanced relationship is to smile at me as they walk by.
\nMine is to marry them or at least date them. And I’d ask them a lot of questions and tell them a lot of things about me.
\nBut they don’t want that extent of a relationship.
\nSo it effectively is an unbalanced situation. 99% on my part and 1% (at most!)<\/em> on theirs.
\nAnd that simply doesn’t last.
\nAfter all, I get a smile from everyone I walk by — just by smiling myself.<\/p>\n
\nIf I have to fill my tires with air every<\/strong> time I use the car…
\nIf I constantly spend time and money on repairs, at some point I get rid of it.<\/p>\n
\nHow long is that relationship going to last? I can get that<\/strong> anywhere!<\/p>\n