sajirisays

Many a times, we come across statements like, “Oh you’re dating? Life toh set hi hai na fir!” I’d like to raise a question to that. Why do we predominantly assume that the person’s life is on the right track if he/she is in a relationship? It is safe to say, that a relationship (for that matter, any relationship) is a PART of our lives. One may share each and every excrutiating detail about life to his partner, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the person may then automatically, live a pain-free or “sane” life. As aforementioned, a relationship we are in, is a part of our life and NOT our entire life. One can be in a mature, loving and healthy relationship and not be okay about other things in life, at the same time. We just need to normalize the fact, that an unstable person CAN be in a relationship. Who isn’t mentally unstable nowadays? The times are bad, and worse for committed people when we assume their life is perfectly fine, simply because they’re in a relationship. S