How destructive relationships influence your well-being
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Valentine’s Day puts love on the brain. Throughout the world, people dedicate the day to celebrating relationships. But we ought to be paying more attention to them, researchers say. Relationships are important to our health and wellbeing every day of the year – not just February 14th.
“Healthy relationships enable us to be who we are,” says Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D., R.N., Director of the Center for Spirituality & Healing. “They nurture us and they help us grow. They help us become better people.”
Relationships can reduce stress and have been linked to overall improved health. Researchers have even shown that people with healthy social relationships have a 50 percent greater likelihood of survival.
But relationships are challenging – sometimes exhausting at best. People with poor relationships are more likely to suffer from depression, and loneliness is powerful enough to weaken our immune system.
Bean Robinson, Ph.D., associate director of the Program in Human Sexuality and Kreitzer spoke with Health Talk about the ways intimate and social relationships impact our health.
HT: Why do we seek out relationships?
Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D., RN: Relationships – whether social or intimate – make people happier and contribute to joy in our lives. They constitute a vital part of wellbeing.
Bean Robinson, Ph.D.: We are very social creatures. In terms of sex, there seems to be a real need for touch and connection. Connecting can be scary, but it’s how we bond with one another. In adulthood, we often find that connection through intimate body-to-body contact, or sex.
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It helps you to know the world. Get accustomed to people and their behavior. You learn ti make the difference between the ones who are genuine and the ones who are not. It makes you realise that the person you trusted is actually the one you saw at the last, when the mask fell off. You realise that all you need to be successful is self love. You start loving yourself and investing time for yourself. You realise that that life is not a bed of RoseES. We, as human being have to make the intelligent choice of surrounding ourselves with the ones who really care and the ones with whom we are happy. It's not always that you breakup and you gotta hate the other person. You know how to forgive but also not forget. You know yourself better. In the process, you realise your true worth and that nothing is more important than your happiness, at any cost!