Relationships are like foods. It must undergo a complex cooking process before you can get that right flavor. And that cooking process entails a perfect mixture of ingredients in their right amount, quality and timing. So if you want to make your relationship the perfect food, be sure to have these ingredients in hand and start playing the role of a five-star chef.
First add liberal amount of understanding. Maybe this ingredient doesn't have a right amount. With relationships, understanding should come not in spoons or cups but in buckets or sacks. Be plentiful in giving understanding. When your partner comes home late, ask first. And when reason is sound enough, try to understand.
Remember that when understanding is not enough, relationship will be bitter that you may feel you already want to spit it out. On the other hand, everything also has its own limit. When understanding is already exhausted, it may really be the right time to stop just swallowing everything up.
Pour some trust. Unlike understanding, trust is a sensitive ingredient and should only be put in the right amount. Don't add too little trust or your relationship will be bland. Don't also add too much trust or your relationship will be too tangy. Treasure also the trust of your partner. Never break it. Trust is a delicate ingredient, and once broken, like shattered glass, you can never bring it back.
Mix some respect. For men, there is a saying: treat your woman like your mother, and she will treat you the way your mother treated you. Respect is like a salt in a food. It is a very basic that its absence will ruin the entire taste of the food. Treat your partner with respect.
Never own him or her like your possession that you have all the rights to do what you wish to. He or she is still a person who deserves all the respect you can give. And one good thing about this ingredient, respect is two-way. You give respect, and you'll earn it. So check yourself first. "Am I giving due respect?" Before complaining you're being disrespected.
Add a pinch of privacy. Although you have been together for years, your partner still deserves some privacy. If he or she wants to go out with friends, be generous to give permission (and please don't follow.) Your partner still has a private life. And as what had been mentioned earlier, respect that privacy.
Squeeze some juice of hope. With relationships, it is very important to have hope. Hope that everything will be okay. Hope that your partner is not cheating on you. Hope that the storm will pass out. Hope that your relationship will still taste the best after all the fire it has been put unto. Hope should remain even if everything else has gone away. Remember that what's left inside Pandora's Box was hope, the cure to all the curses.
Finally, finish it with the final ingredient: love. Love, maybe, is the most immeasurable ingredient in relationships. It is very vague that you cannot contain it in a cup. It is very incalculable that you cannot measure it with a spoon. But when the time comes that you run out of reasons to love, yet you still love, that's the right time to say you indeed, actually love.
And after some brewing with time, relationship is the finest food you'll ever taste. It doesn't expire. It doesn't spoil. And like wine, it gets better as it gets older. Just don't let go of that ladle and hold on to those ingredients!
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