21st Century Relationships:
Exploring the path of conscious dating and partnership
Post 1:
Moving on from the Reactive Relationship
The author of this blog starts with a funny nothing viewing
both side in which relationships could be looked at “On the one hand, there's the plethora of fairytale romances
that are always easy, and are filled with a seemingly endless supply of
happiness and pleasure. On the other hand, there are all these folks out there
peddling the idea that because the fairytale is a lie, the truth must be that
all of this relationship stuff is "hard work" and requires endless
amounts of sacrifice and compromise.” Giving out the a two sided argument
giving people and understanding that there are many ways to look at
relationships. The two sides he mentioned are the typical sides.
The voice of the authors
writing is not to offend either party, because they are not biased on what kind
of relationship it is, who they are, or even how many there are. The emotions
that they are projecting are sympathetic for people that are in love but are
having a struggling time getting past their problems.
The author gives examples of
different scenarios that occurs in relationships commonly then gives help to
solve the matter. “You and your partner have just finished eating dinner. You
get up to go into the other room, leaving the dishes behind in the sink. You're
partner doesn't like dirty dishes in the sink and makes some remark about how
it would be nice to have a clean kitchen.”
This is something that can spark an argument. The author writes about
recognizing the patterns and how this leads down two either paths, an argument
or moving on from the matter, which is just letting it, bottle up. Using the
words; recognize, feelings, emotions, appreciation and conscious are all part
of a relationship. These words come up continuously through out the blog, also
in different synonyms.
This blog can relate to my
blog topic because it focuses on relationships, even though I had a focus on
hook-up culture this blog gives tips in making a relationship work. People that
read this post will be getting tips on how to improve or better understand
situations in there relationship
Post 2: Screw “Dating”: Let’s Hang Out!
Online dating was one of the topics I decided to write on,
low and behold Kelly Seal has written a blog about online dating. The voice in
this blog is a bit cynical but very opinionated because the options for online
dating can lead to different things. The options of online dating can lead to
dating, hanging out, casually hooking up or being exclusive. The tone that can
take place while talking online can be misleading though.
She uses the word “Ambiguity” which is part of anyone life
of dating because you really don’t know what you are getting yourself into let
alone doing it online. This is an informational blog that gives examples of
what could and has happened through online dating.
Something that is relative to my post is when she said, “In
just over a decade's time, we went through the meteoric rise of online dating,
and the corresponding cultural struggles to develop appropriate guidelines and
mores for people trying to meet each other, and develop successful
relationships.” Times have changed
drastically and people are leading to the online dating because it’s easier for
some.
