What Defines Your Relationships?

Do you look to the past pain or the future potential of your relationships with key people?

Every relationship has its good days and its bad days. Sometimes relationships that last a long time or are meant to last through life have very bad days. At some point, once the dust clears and all has been confessed and forgiven, each person must make a decision. They must decide if they will let the past pain or the future potential of the relationship define their direction.

If you go the pain route, you can be sure where you'll end up. You'll end up with no trust, no passion, and no hope. You'll tolerate each other and miss the best of what each person can bring to the table. It's a lose-lose deal.

If you go the potential route, you cannot be sure where you'll end up, but at least you will have given the relationship a second chance. Going the potential route means you give each other a credit on trust. Trust is earned, but you give credit for what they haven't earned based on the possibility of what could be. If they blow, they blow it. If they bless it, you are both blessed.

So what are you basing your key relationships on: past pain or future potential?