Relationships 3. Turns out communication is not the only thing

You may have noticed that part 2 talks about relationships and communication interchangeably. 

This is linked to the fact that communication is always said to be the number one skill required in relationships. 

But I'm hoping that with this series of articles you are starting to understand that communication is not innate to human beings and that relationships are about much more than the way we say things and how we relate to others.

A lot of what makes relationships comes from what we each carry in our self as unique human beings. This plays up when we are confronted by others because others act like a mirror for what we don't want to see or what we may not be aware that we carry in ourselves. 

My hope is that I'm helping you to make a bit more sense of what it is to be human, to carry all of that in ourselves, to understand how this influences how we behave in relationships with others.

But also to inspire you to get to know yourself a bit more - both as a person and in terms of how you behave in relationships with others. 

For example, in the context of relationships: what is it that I want? What is it that I need? How do I assert myself a bit more? Or how do I pay more attention to others and their needs and wants? Etc.