by Cleveland Dingle

Created on: July 30, 2010   Last Updated: July 31, 2010

Relationships fail because of the lack of love and respect. Keep it real, where there is no love and respect how the hell can there be a relationship? Love is the foundation and respect is the bond that keeps the love together. Unfortunately, people suffer in their life times and never have the opportunity to learn about those two important elements of human coexistence. It is beautiful when two people are madly in love with one another and they respect each other. There is nothing like it; but when you have one and the absence of the other, there will be problems in your relationship until you do something about it. How can you fix a failing relationship if you don't know how? Impossible. One must first learn about what they desire to fix, before they try to fix it. If you don't your relationship will fail. Sometimes when just love is present either or both parties think that love is enough, when it is not. For instance, if I love you and don't respect you what do we really have? Precisely, nothing. One day things will get ugly.

What if I'm in a relationship with you and I respect you, but I don't love you? As redundant as these questions may seem, have you ever asked yourself any of these questions before? Let's explore both. I love you but I don't respect you first. We laugh together, we argue together, and we make love together. I enjoy your cooking, and you admire my drive. I think about you all day and you do the same like wise. I pick you up from work, and you pick me up dinner on the way home sometimes. You ask for money and you get it, that behavior is on both sides. This is early in the relationship when we have discovered that we're in love with each other. Here's the kick in the meatballs, she never let go of her ex-boyfriends. Not only her ex-boyfriends, other male friends. At first you think nothing of it because you spend most of your time together with each other, remember the relationship is new. She even introduces you to one of her ex-boyfriends and you think nothing of it.

As time goes on you start to feel like something deep inside is trying to tell you something but you ignore it. A day or two goes by and the feeling in your chest gets stronger and stronger. Along with the feeling in your chest your mind says, "she's cheating" and you dismiss the thought immediately. You don't want to believe that b.s. at all. The feeling is still there that something is wrong, and your mind tells you again that she is cheating. Now, because you are in

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