Why Are Girlfriend-Boyfriend Relationships So Complex?

“A relationship may not stay just in one area of life. Once people are together, they will have to share many things.”

—Sadhguru

Everyone knows the sweetness of relationships, but there is also a lot of sourness–which you are beginning to taste. Unfortunately today, we have imbibed this idea from the West that if you utter the word “relationship,” people are generally thinking of body-based relationships. But relationships can be of many kinds.

If relationships are body-based, the excitement about each other’s body will usually die after some time. What you thought of as the ultimate is not ultimate after some time. It is natural that people begin to grow out of it when the main draw which brought them together starts to melt away. Without knowing why, they start being unpleasant to each other because, essentially, such a relationship is about extracting sweetness and happiness from another person. If you try to squeeze joy out of someone, after some time, when it does not yield the same results as it used to in the beginning, some bitterness will begin.

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