ArabianOud {R}

Sometimes... just sometimes when a relationship is under a strain...   Sometimes, a relationship goes through a very rough patch, bump, curve, phase, stage, whatever you would like to call it, it can be pretty daunting!! In the last few months I have been witnessing a lot of various stories that I cannot name for personal reasons, plus there is the confidentiality aspect that I would like to respect and maintain. However, there is something I can definitely do, use these stories in a generalized manner to describe the kind of painful and damaging things I have come to experience and learn about life, particularly relationships. To begin with, all I want to say that at times when the strain of a relationship gets too much to deal with, it will go through a phase where it will crack, snap or break.. Some may consider it to be the end of a relationship, but for others it could be re-assessing the relationship and looking at one's own mistakes and flaws and how things coul