abcd_z
Senior Don Juan
I was posting on a site today that is very Politically Correct. You can't advocate Nexting a woman for poor behavior, because that's unfair and manipulative. Bleh.
I was going to re-post what I said there, about zero-drama relationships and what they have in common. And I will, at the bottom of my post. But the truth is, you only need one word: Next.
A Next can reset the relationship. More importantly, it can train her to treat you well. If she gets cut out of your life every time she throws a tantrum or argues your leadership, you can bet she'll either learn fast or stay gone.
Either way is a win for us: if she doesn't treat you as well as you deserve in a relationship, she's not worth your time and effort. And if she can be taught to behave herself around you, then the problem is gone.
Win/win.
I was going to re-post what I said there, about zero-drama relationships and what they have in common. And I will, at the bottom of my post. But the truth is, you only need one word: Next.
A Next can reset the relationship. More importantly, it can train her to treat you well. If she gets cut out of your life every time she throws a tantrum or argues your leadership, you can bet she'll either learn fast or stay gone.
Either way is a win for us: if she doesn't treat you as well as you deserve in a relationship, she's not worth your time and effort. And if she can be taught to behave herself around you, then the problem is gone.
Win/win.
I've heard it said by numerous people that there will always be drama in relationships (bf/gf, husband/wife, etc.)
I've seen relationships that have drama (most of them), and I've seen a small handful of relationships that never have any drama, ever. The common threads in these rare zero-drama relationships are:
* There is always a clear definition of who is responsible for what. It can range from a typical 50/50 split to a Dom/sub-type relationship, but a task itself and the related sphere of responsibility always belongs to one person or the other, and the other person does not try to interfere.
* Having a relationship with no drama is more important to at least one of the members than having the relationship itself is. Many people will prioritize the relationship itself above and beyond anything else, which means they will accept any level of drama or unhappiness as a sacrifice on the altar of the relationship.
* The participants place very few rules on each other. The more rules people have, the more likely it is that one of them will get broken, and that generally causes drama. The few rules that remain tend to be ones that are important enough to end a relationship over.
As a side-note, I have one of those few drama-free relationships. It rocks.