Whether you want to feel comfortable talking about sex or become a great apologist, these tips are for you. We can learn a lot from Rehoboam's foolishness. Not all advice is considered the same. Here are four verses to consider when deciding who should form your inner circle of guidance. Honestly, I sometimes struggle to find someone who feels like giving me unbiased relationship advice.
When addressing relationship advice that may go against your point of view, I find it helpful to give information a chance. This is very evident in relationships where one or both people are facing imminent change and the relationship suffers due to the struggle against the inevitable. Just as causing pain to the muscles allows them to grow stronger again, introducing some pain into their relationship through vulnerability strengthens the relationship. A friend who has more emotional burden in relationships than a physical one will give you advice from that side of the spectrum. We all sit in different places on the spectrum, but it's important to know what side of the spectrum the person giving the advice feels on, in relation to you.
I'm sure it would be a mistake to consider only the first few relationship tips at the top of your search list. Non-professionals, such as family and friends, will always give you advice about your relationship if you ask them. When I got married almost three years ago, at the wedding reception I asked some of the older and wiser people who were in attendance to give me some advice from their own relationships to make sure my wife and I didn't shit in (the same) bed. If you resist change and someone suggests changing it as relationship advice, you're likely to struggle with change and advice, and possibly the friend who's giving you the advice.
This means that you could very well be getting relationship advice based on opinions rather than qualified research, and on the fashions that families of “rich” and “famous” are taking. Much of the advice is commonplace that will guide you safely to the edge of healthy relationships.
