With all the complexities of life in 2015, your juggling skills are so super advanced that you’ll soon be batting off recruitment calls from the Cirque du Soleil every hour, on the hour… only you don’t have time for that either. Life’s too full. It’s got crazy busy – CRAZY! But we’ve kind of had a hand in making it that way because damn, we want to get on, get in, get up, get to the top. Hell yeah! Miss out on the goodies life’s dangled our way in exchange for busting a sweat 14 hours a day and then a few more in the gym afterwards? Hell no! Bring it on! Sweaty is the new workwear for professional women, we know that. News Flash: Speed limits for life in 2015 have been scrapped.
There is no restriction on how fast you can roar through the days, no restraint on you hitting terminal velocity. Hit it! Hmm… but amongst all the thriving, striving, driving, high-fiving there’s one key area of life that’s taking a serious blow to the chest – love. 3rd millennium media folk are all up for screaming about relationships with their editorial creativity on fire but all too often it’s a damn negative story that runs: celebrity couple bust ups, divorce rates climbing, late-life dating on the increase… so it goes on. But the truth is modern relationships really haven’t evolved much since love was invented. What’s changed is the overwhelming pressures affecting them!
Forget all the advice about how to analyze, bolster or save your relationship
Forget all the advice about how to analyze, bolster or save your relationship – what you need is to build an impregnable stronghold, a castle that will withstand these modern forces: The Battle of the Sexes Tragically the prevailing climate amongst men and women has taken a serious downturn as the battle of the sexes is heating up to boiling point. What boneheaded greenhorn started it all by pitching up in life’s marketing meeting with a flip chart and a pointer and declaring “Friends, Romans, Ladies, I have the answer; let’s declare war on the opposite sex – that’ll have us all getting along great, leading fine, happy lives together – oh yeah!”.
The double rub is that now this gender war has become so muddled with the fight for equality and personal rights that we’ve all innocently bought into it at the serious detriment of having the kind of relationship that would ensure you never ached on the inside again. Pressure of Life Old news we cry! This is nothing new – since the earth first spun relationships have been subjected to all manner of pressures: financial, cultural, political, family, outrunning dinosaurs and a myriad others.
But in 2015 we have the added and very powerful whammy of the increasing pace of a changing world and the need to forever play knowledge catch up. Real and relentless relationship stressors – unfair! Couple this with an ever decreasing attention span due to a million shiny, must-have distractions and our relationships are riding the back seat of the bus all the way. Image At least in the good old days of hyping up the unattainable ideal of ‘the perfect couple’, we were shown one we could vaguely relate to.
Now with the constant bombardment of faux personalities and lifestyles swarming our screens, ears and subconscious, we’ve been hit with a nasty case of relationship inferiority complex. How the hell are we supposed to measure up to this ideal when it’s total fiction lauded as glossy reality? Does your relationship have the fortitude to rise above the much touted but crippling ‘perfect couple’ exemplar? Sadly, most don’t as never achieving this mythical state is seen as relationship failure.
Finding a compatible path together in life and love is getting harder every time we pull out the map.
Opportunity One sure fire prediction is that 2015 is going to rage on with the new millennium baton of being another great year of opportunity – I’ll take that wager. We’re talking continued international living, soaring entrepreneurial spirit for big and small ventures and careers evolving in industries we haven’t yet heard of. Whilst this is all great for progress, it also means more areas for relationship definition, decision, division and demolition. Finding a compatible path together in life and love is getting harder every time we pull out the map.
Communication One area our great grandparents had it easier was perversely, in the communications stakes. That’s not to say they were necessarily better at it but they had every chance to practice since it was a much simpler time. Relationships back then used to just be about talking and touching – it was face to face, hands on. Sure, now with technological progress, connecting with our significant other should be super easy, guaranteed – shame though that most often our thoughts have bounced off a bunch of satellites before they’re received.
We’re apart more, busy more, distracted more, pulled between career and home more – disastrously for our relationships, we’re messaging ever more. Want to lay the foundation stone for your relationship stronghold in 2015? Join those of us who treasure what we have – we’re going back to talking and touching.
