TOLERANCE FOR DIFFERENCES

People come in all different shapes, sizes, personalities, styles and backgrounds. Culture, regions, family clans, and beliefs topple on top of those many built in differences. So as a consequence communication styles, problem-solution assessments and skills, judgments of right and wrong, anxiety management, and needs and wants are all unique as well. Now bundle those differences into a friendship and likely you will have interesting times expanding and exploring. Somehow though, bundle those up into a a long term, intimate relationship where you also need to be functioning as a unit (marriage for instance) and those differences are hugely impactful and likely to cause conflicts. Mutual tolerance, good will, sense of humor , mutual trustworthiness and intents/actions of respect help navigate those conflicts. But even the expression of these last 5 qualities might be expressed differently (i.e. respect does not look the same to everyone nor is a sense of humor the same). Therefore, as a consequence, tolerance of differences needs to be a key component helping you navigate close relationships.

 

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