Tuesday, August 5, 2008

LOVE IN THE MODERN WORLD

The rise of the feminine liberation as a response to the machismo and the men’s reaction from the women’s independence has brought as a consequence an imbalance in the couple’s relationship by which people are wondering if is the woman or the man who stress, deteriorate or destroy the relationship. There is no doubt that in the traditional family which our grandparents knew, men were the ones who created a negative environment that women almost always tolerated until death due to culture, economic and moral reasons. In fact, there were a lot of grandmothers who endured with stoicism their husband’s alcoholic, aggressive and unfaithful behavior.

Today’s woman tries to imitate men even in their pernicious and promiscuous behaviors and men have reacted with violence, insecurity or fear towards this according to their personality.

The ideal relationship is the one in which love is shared 100% as was Romeo’s and Juliet’s. However, it is not always like this since one of the parties usually becomes more in love, involved and compromised that the other. In this case, he/she gives to his/her counterpart everything without any reservation and is available to make sacrifices in order to build a healthy relationship. Nonetheless, he/she has the expectation and in some cases demands that the other responds in the same way. However, that person cannot reciprocate what he/she does not have and this causes a progressive deterioration in the relationship. In fact, who has less percentage of love is considered the bad person, regardless weather is the woman or the man.

When a relationship ends due to the situation described above, if is a woman the person who was more in love, she sometimes assumes the role of victim of the machismo arguing that she was abused emotionally by her partner. If is a man, he asserts to be a victim of feminism and accuses his partner of being an aggressive, inconsiderate and domineering woman who abused him emotionally. If we take into consideration all the circumstances surrounding this topic, we must infer that neither one is the bad person in the relationship because all of this is the result of this modern world in which there is economic independence, absence of capacity of sacrifice and the fact that no one is willing to endure a suffering relationship.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think you are right. There is more cynicism on the part of man.