Life – and career – is too short to put up with poor service, neglect, and victimization.
Relationships are tough.
There’s the understatement, of this, or any, century.
When they’re good, they’re great.
When they’re bad, they’re intolerable.
Yet – we seem to overwhelmingly tolerate bad relationships, even when it’s blatantly obvious that the relationship is uneven, or when it is unhealthy for us, or when we could do much better, by just getting up, and walking away.
Why is that?
It’s because all real relationships are composed of contact, experience, and time.
When a single occurrence of an interaction between two people (or two companies) occurs, it is just a transaction (contact). However, what begins to build relationship between the two parties, is a series of such transactions (experience) over a prolonged period (time).
It’s the way friendship works. It’s the way love works. It’s the way family works.
What makes bad relationships difficult to walk away from, is…
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