The Great Gatsby Healthy Relationship Essay

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Tara Mahamad Mr. Joanes ENG3U1 July.23rd.2013 Relationships at it's Finest : Healthy Relationships To Begin with, Building healthy patterns early in your relationship can establish a solid foundation for the long run. when beginning a relationship it is important to always BEE - (Build, Explore and Establish). Build a foundation of appreciation and respect. by doing so you focus on all of the things your partner says and does as well as consider them. Happy couples make a point of noticing even small opportunities to say "thank you" to their partner, rather than focusing on mistakes their partner has made. In The Great Gatsby, it seemed as if Jay Gatsby was Building alot more than Daisy was. Daisy seemed more concerned upon making herself…show more content…
Relationships Change, changes in life outside your relationship will impact what you want and need from the relationship. Since change is inevitable, welcoming it as an opportunity to enhance the relationship is more beneficial verses trying to avoid it. In both The Great Gatsby and 500 Days Of Summer, the characters chose to avoid changes in their lives verses accepting them, which caused their relationships to slowly but surely fall into peices. In a realtionship it is important to checking in periodically. Occasionally set aside time to check in with each other on changing expectations and goals. If a couple ignores difficult topics for too long, their relationship is likely to drift into rocky waters without their noticing. Respect Changes and Accept your differences. What you want from a relationship in the early months of dating may be quite different from what you want after you have been together for some time. Respecting and valuing these changes is healthy. Accepting your differences is often extremly difficult, but healthy.Throughout the movie 500 Days Of Summer it is shown how as time progresses Summer begins to become less tollerant with Tom's actions, often becoming annoyed and frustrated very easily, resulting in some type of argument. To accept that there are some things about our partner that will not change over time, no matter how much we want them to is a key attribute to
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