Thanks, Sorry and Please

When you are in a long-term relationship whether it is marriage, friendship or other social relationship, you may get swept away in the familiarity and routine of the relationship.

Often you think: We already know each other for long time. What could happen? It doesn’t matter. I can just neglect and ignore. I am not in the mood. Or it doesn’t matter.

This mindset makes the person blind to even the simple basic gestures in the relationship like saying thank you, sorry if I have hurt you and please could we go out for sometime.

I can’t forget when I heard Esther Perel, the relationship coach, said that the number one killer in any relationship is neglect. It is when you look at the person as something below you. It is when your body language and eye contact dismiss the existence of the person in front of you.

After all this, let us not take the long-term relationships we have for granted. Let us generously and ego-freely give out our selfless selves to the relationships. Let us remember to say thank you, sorry and please even if you know the person for more than 20 years.