Commitment in a couple involves taking on a common project, being next to each other and rowing together, even if things get difficult and even if you don’t always agree on everything. It requires respecting differences with others and knowing how to reach agreements. common. It involves working together for the relationship, that is, “committing” to it.
This inevitably requires the ability to adapt, not only to the circumstances, but to the other and various skills that make this adaptation possible: Knowing how to deal with whatever comes and managing to reach a successful conclusion, knowing how to support others, knowing how to share and communicate with others. , knowing how to generate pleasant moments, knowing how to make others feel loved, knowing how to distribute responsibilities and burdens.
But also knowing how to take care of oneself without placing the task of making ourselves feel good on others exclusively. It involves knowing how to ask, knowing how to set limits and taking care of our personal areas to feel as “complete” and satisfied as possible, not only in the relationship, but in the global areas of our life.
In the end the commitment It is that: Carry out the actions that are in our power and that will guarantee to keep all that afloat with greater probability and in the case of the relationship, those that will guarantee to keep afloat the shared project that one day it was decided to undertake.