What is a relationship? A relationship is something that a person shares with somebody thus the popular phrase “no man is an island”. One can’t survive on his own for long, people need other people to survive. Unfortunately maintaining a relationship is quite tricky. After all, you have to understand how the other person thinks and how he handles his emotions. You don’t think alike, you don’t do everything the same way. And honestly, this creates a challenge in terms of getting along with each other.
But these challenges are not impossible to overcome. As long as you are willing to meet each other half way, your relationship is bound to work. Nobody ever said that you are 100% agreeable all the time right? So this is where the meeting halfway becomes useful. You understand the other person and the other person also learns to adapt to your moods.
You have to realize that there are different levels of relationships and so you have to relate to every level differently. It will forever be a work in progress even if you have known the other person for a long time. So for a relationship to work, you have to do your share as the other person does his.