Novel & Cerita Relationship Fundamentals

Maybe if I reminded him, he would understand. “What!” Raphael gasped; his eyes were wide with disbelief, like he couldn’t imagine that I was saying that. “Why would you say that?” “Attention breeds attraction. When you and I were discussing this contract marriage, you said you didn’t enter it with someone you knew because you wanted to keep our relationship purely business and reduce the risk of emotional entanglement. As you can see, our relationship is no longer the former and is greatly leaning into the latter. I propose we return to our professional relationship for our own good.”

I scoffed. "Haven't you read Annexure 14.2?" He leaned on the chair and folded his hands. My eyes widened. I quickly flipped the pages and my jaws dropped. There it was, in black and white. To maintain the appearance of a real relationship, Party B agrees to cooperate with Party A, including but not limited to dating and cohabitation. I looked at the smirk on his lips. Does he learn every term in the contract or something? Why I was even asking, he was the one to make it.

She looked up and met a pair of eyes as clear and bright as the moon. Amanda didn't expect her to notice her so suddenly. She smiled and nodded slightly before turning to pick up a book to read. Coincidentally, Amanda picked up a book about relationships. Opening it, the title read: "What Do You Value Most in a Relationship?" Amanda: "..." What was valued most in a relationship? Loyalty, mutual understanding, and mutual tolerance, of course. Amanda wanted to see if she was right. She continued reading and guessed some of it correctly, but not much.

What came out was the accurate account. The dynamic between them between Fenn and the human-side chair had the quality that developed between two people who had been doing rigorous work together long enough that the relationship had its own structural integrity. Not friendship exactly, though there was warmth in it. Professional trust. The specific kind that came from having been tested together across multiple difficult situations and having consistently found the other person to be operating in good faith and at full capacity. That kind of trust was worth more, in a working relationship, than the more personal kind, because it was built on evidence rather than affection and therefore held

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take." Anthony Robbins~

Isn't that what every relationship goal is? "Would you like to make a commitment someday?" Micaela's voice intruded my thoughts and I glance down at her. "Commitment? What commitment?" I ask confusedly. I don't understand what she's talking about. She sat up and look me in the eyes. "Commitment in relationship means having an agreement to love, trust, be honest, openness, loyalty to your partner. And this are the necessary keys to marriage..."

They had been playing roles, even if those roles had started to feel less like roles over time. Now there was no contract. There was just the actual thing, the real relationship, and the real relationship needed its own framework. Not rules, exactly. Not the printed list of house rules that had been presented to him on the first day of the contract. But something. An understanding. A shared sense of what they were building and why.

Leaning in, she planted a gentle kiss on my forehead and then enveloped me in a warm embrace. Pulling away slightly, she gave me a faint smile, attempting to lighten the atmosphere. "A relationship... well," she mused, her eyes sparkling. "I would say it's when both partners support and comfort each other, bringing happiness and laughter into each other's lives. It's a connection filled with love, acceptance, and understanding. You don't necessarily have to be in love with someone to be in a relationship. Love can develop over time. Artemy may be stubborn, but he's crazy about you. I can see it in his eyes, so clearly. He has emotions, but he's afraid of them. However, you can change that. Y

This is what her trust has done to me. "Do you trust me this much?" Tucking her loose strands behind her hair, I take this opportunity to caress the side of her face. "In any relationship, there are three things which define your relationship: love, trust, and respect. If any of them is gone, then your relationship will not be able to survive. Just love is not enough, at least for me." She keeps her hand over mine and smiles, "So, yeah, I trust you. Maybe more than you trust yourself."

He smiled. “Why Ms. Kane, as husband and wife we have certain duties to uphold do we not?” I gaped at him. Closing my mouth with a click I shot him a dirty look. “While that may be true, it does not mean we need to go above and beyond what others see” I pointed out. “How else are we supposed to forge a relationship if there is no physical intimacy? Then when we need to engage in it publicly it will not be believable or natural.” He raised his shoulders in a small what did you expect gesture.