Is the physical part of a relationship necessary?
I was talking to one of friends about this, and I said "No." I don't believe that a good relationship needs to have kissing, sex, etcetera in order to be successful. The analogy I made was ketchup on a hot dog.
The ketchup isn't necessary, but it just makes the hot dog taste better. Even without the ketchup, the hot dog still tastes pretty good. Though I've never been in a serious relationship, I believe that the real important part of a relationship is the communication. I don't believe that you can have a good relationship with someone if you don't tell them how you feel. Without the communication, a relationship will probably dissolve quickly.
I think that the best part of a relationship is the feeling of growing close to someone else and being able to just talk to the person and have them understand how you feel.
Too many teenagers are being pressured in doing things that they don't want to do. I have a friend of mine who is currently being pressured by her boyfriend to 'kiss' to make it official. I can not even begin to comprehend what kind of logic that is.
Do you believe that a successful relationship can be fulfilled without the physical aspects of it?
This entry was posted on January 14, 2008 at 04:25 PM and is filed under Thoughts,.
By Alex · on January 14, 2008
If that’s what you’ve both agreed on, sure. :)
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Haha, a relationship purely by communication.
That would be funny. :lol:
Unless if you went to some online dating service..
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I think it would be hard to find someone that didn’t want any physical intimacy as part of a long-term, serious relationship. :???: It doesn’t have to be the best part, but it’s almost always involved… I don’t like it when teenagers who aren’t really ready get involved in that, though.
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I think that in order for a serious relationship, there should be physical chemistry.
However for teenagers (like me) we aren’t necessarily ready for physical intimacy. Once you move onto a next step in a relationship, you can’t really go back. If you hold hands with “your girlfriend/boyfriend” the next time they’re going to expect you to hold hands with them. This goes on and on until we find out some girl’s pregnant. :???: I’m not saying that hugging, kissing, holding hands are bad, but that if they go too far, too fast something bad is bound to happen.
I feel bad for your friend, a kiss doesn’t make a relationship official! It’s the same as how people think having sex = growing up.:mad:
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As you get older and relationships become more serious, theres nothing wrong with the physical side, in fact, I think physical chemistry is extremely important in a relationship. Something along the lines of that ‘spark’, but that can also be found in intellectual talk, or experiencing new adventures together, etc.
In relationships when younger (I don’t mean it in a demeaning way, just that we’re not adults, and aren’t committing to relationship as if they are our life partners) relationships it really is about the experience, getting to know each other, learning to communicate, learning all the basis to make a good relationship before the physical things kick in when you’re ready/older.
But it is hard for people to stand up to pressure… its up to the person themself to realise what they want. Sometimes the situation is to understand that they do not need to fall into the pressures to be accepted to liked as a person etc.
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I don’t think anyone can deny that sex doesn’t play a HUGE role in a relationship.
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No. I don’t think you need physical in order to be in a relationship.
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