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A healthy relationship is one where both partners, first and foremost, respect each other.
Second, acknowledge each other.
Once you start treating the other person with this sense of equality, they be they immediately become or they feel valued.
It is not our gender or our colour or our race or our ethnicity or our language that makes one better than the other.
Absolutely not.
This is a false criteria.
Once you have that in a relationship, it creates that imbalance immediately.
So equal here means that we both have equal financial rights, spiritual rights, physical duties and rights.
And sometimes small things make a huge difference.
And it comes back to the idea of expectation.
So if I'm in the kitchen and I see a plate that is not clean, I will not wait or expect that my partner should come and clean it.
Right. Because we are in this together.
This is a partnership. Yeah.
Simple things like doing the laundry don't feel it's above your status to just go and do these things.
These are important things that can make the other person feel respected and valued.
But also, I think what I would do to maintain a healthy relationship is make sure that in my very busy schedule, I do have time for my partner, for my family, such as making sure that I have in my calendar a day where it's just for the family.
A day where we can go out and have coffee together.
Relationships require a lot of maintenance, a lot of work on a daily basis.
But also, I think, to have the ability and the genuine willingness to listen and not to be judgmental.