10 Human Relationships
One dictionary defines relationship as the way people or groups feel about each other and behave towards each other. When two people or groups are friendly towards each other and work well together we sa that they have a good relationship. Personal relationship arte like sunshine, the weather or the temperature- being friendly is like warmth, and being unfriendly is like could. Relationship are also like physical connections. A good relationship is like being joined to he other person or group, ending, a relationship can be like losing a part of yourself. A lot of people believe thaht a broken friendship can be repaired but only like a torn thread in which a knot will remain forever. Or maybe it is like when a broken vase is glued back together but cracks never go away.
When people who have a romantic relationship, like in a marriage or dating situation, break up we can also say they split up. If a married couple is separeted, it means they have stopped living together. If they decide to officially ens the marriage, they get a divorce.
People with the same values usually stick together, but there is an old saying that opposites attract. When we make friends, we usually try to find people who have similar attitudes towards life as we do. We like to be around people who think like we do and even solve problems in a similar way. But friendship can change into love it people fall in love with each others. Some people do not believe that a man and a woman can be true friend and that if they say they are just friends, one of them must be suffering by suppressing his/her real feelings.
Society often faces relationship problem between people of different races, religions and social classes. These negative relationship are usually based on prejudice, illiteracy, intolerance and closerd-mindedness. Sometimes people are just rude because they know nothing about the other person or group of people, and are suspicious.
Many societies have a certain preejudice against the disabled. In recent years, however, there has been a great improvement in people‘s attitudes: their ignorance has been replaced by information, their fear has disappeared and given way to understanding and their pity has been replaced by positive practical help. The most positive headway has been that most people today now see the peson before the disability, while in the past they used to see the disability before the person. Dome disabled people are brilliant thinkers, people like Dr. Stephen Hawkins, the scientist, researcher and author who lectures at Oxford University. He is physically helpless, totally dependent on his mother for all his daily needs and on his computerized chair for all communication and movement. Some are great craftsmen and artist, actors and performers and even sportsmen, as can be seen every four years at the Paralympics Games.
TThe relationship between men and women in society was not always like what we see in today‘s modern society. The women‘s movements of the past hundred years have tried to change the way women today have better jobs and educational opportunities, and are paid and treated more equally. They have become equal in chore distribution at home and in the raising of children. Women still do not have not equal political power, but they are becoming more influential and also have responsible jobs in business. There is still an invisible glass ceiling, however, which prevents succesful women from getting the most powerful jobs in an organization.