Rules of Relationships

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Barber's Rules of Relationships


BARBER'S FIRST RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
If she's not sleeping with you, and she is sleeping with other people, no matter what nice words she is saying to you, DO NOT expect to have this person as an SO or wife -- ever!

BARBER'S SECOND RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
When the woman you love does not treat you in public (among her other friends) the same way she treats you in private (i.e. you become "that man I'm with today" in public, as opposed to "you're the most important friend that I have" in private), you better not be planning on a long and happy future with this woman because she is not seeing things (the two of you together) the same way that you are -- and don't believe that you are going to suddenly change her either!

BARBER'S THIRD RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
You're not over anybody as long as you keep talking about them to everybody else -- no matter what you are saying about them.

BARBER'S FOURTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
The word "but" is one of the worst words to use in any intimate conversation with your SO. (If you mean "on the other hand", say so, or use "however".)

Other bad words are "you" followed by "should/would/must" (try replacing "you" with "I" and restructure the sentence accordingly) and "...n't" contractions (e.g. couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't).

BARBER'S FIFTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
Most people don't know what they want [from others]. They only know what they think they want, and they don't realize this is not what they want until after they get it. This can leave your partner feeling betrayed after they've given you what you say you want, and you've rejected their gift. Both sides must have some understanding here.

BARBER'S SIXTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
Sex (or lack thereof) is the earliest, most reliable, indicator of other deeply hidden things gone wrong in a relationship. When a good sex life goes to bad or none, the real problem is almost anything except sex. It may range as far afield as job, money, relatives, and/or health problems -- to name only a few. Despite this being true, a majority of people will pretend and blame sex as their only problem until the point of no return, when everything disintegrates at once. Don't blame or ignore the sexual signals, and do try to work together to find and solve the real causes.

BARBER'S SEVENTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
Anything can happen in a relationship, so allow for it!

Better yet, rejoice in it!!

BARBER'S EIGHTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
Someone who only comes to you during the bad times in their life, will leave you each time you turn their bad times into good times.

BARBER'S NINTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
Pain in a relationship is not an indication of how good a relationship is (as in, I can't believe how much I love this person; I want them so much it hurts), but rather how much is wrong with the relationship. Pain is telling us when it is time to move away; to pull our hand out of the flame.

The problem is that too many of us come to worship the pain, believing that it is the pain that makes the relationship real; and usually for too long we don't realize that it really is pain that we're feeling, and not some other emotion instead.

BARBER'S TENTH RULE OF RELATIONSHIPS
Never get involved with someone who is never wrong. (The only remaining option in such a relationship is that you must always be wrong.)