Faithfulness is the 100% trust, devotion and unconditional love that occurs in personal relationships. One can be faithful to their spouse, or significant other, their God, family members, close friends, and clients. Being unfaithful means not being 100% trustworthy, devoted or loving in words and deeds. It includes words and actions that hurt the relationship, i.e. lying, deceiving, disrespect/not courteous or angry behavior, insults, belittling, blaming, withholding love, attention or money, any form of physical abuse and infidelity, or cheating (have a relationship with another person while pledged to be faithful to another. In a successful long-term personal relationships …show more content…
You are both imperfect, emotional beings that can’t fully understand the other persons thoughts, motivations: both need affection, compromise, change and forgiveness.
Good relationships require commitment to good communication. Both individuals have to understand the communication process, their own and each others emotions/triggers, and consistently work hard to maintain the relationship. Establishing and enforcing boundaries may be necessary in areas where you don’t see eye to eye.
o Keep it personal. As much as possible, keep your relationship problems to a small circle of supporting members to minimize the damage done to others. In a nutshell, the circle of pain, stress, unhealthy behaviors, etc. ripples out – hurting a lot more people.
Unconditional love and trust. If two people really do love each other and want to be together, both have to work hard at it. Unconditional love requires 100% trust. You should consistently act as if you are no longer single, but in a 100% committed relationship. If you’ve screwed up admit it, ask forgiveness, and change your ways with integrity.
Minimize challenges to unfaithfulness and unhappiness
o Consider whether you need to announce your status correctly on Facebook, and/or the implications if you do not publically acknowledge your