“It is your decision, and I respect it, but I don’t know how and where will you survive with that outdated mindset of yours….”
He was more exasperated than sad or sorry or disappointed, and it made a lot of difference. It somehow became a reaffirmation of my decision to leave.
“I don’t expect you to understand, for I think we lost that connect long ago and I do not wish to drag you where you don’t want to be. If the five years of association have given me a right to speak, all I have to say is that I support flexibility, but I cannot trust when a value system becomes elastic.”
He looked as relieved to get rid of me, as he had done with his erstwhile value system – to embrace so-called success.
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Well done, Reena!
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Thank you, Dr. Crystal!
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Thoughtful post, as always, Reena. If your values become elastic, they are no longer your values. We are such complicated people.
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Thank you, Len!
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An elastic value system has very little value
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That’s a good pun! Thank you, Dyanne!
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Losing connections because the value system of one or both becomes elastic and embraces values and actions intolerable of the other has caused many of relationship to dissolve. Good SSS.
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People do grow apart at times, just that personal break-ups are different from business partnership break-ups.
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Flexibility cannot include a person’s underlying, core values, or else, who are you?
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That’s a very valid question.
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…yet, flexibility is key to success… in any relationship, personal or business. Good one Reena.
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Thank you, UP!
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There are those willing to rationalize, excuse and otherwise look away. I wonder the true quality (of the) relationship when that happens. When it comes to compromise, imo, the rabbit hole to avoid is compromising one’s own values for another.
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You are so right – “compromising one’s own values for another”.
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the ends may ‘justify the means’ but relationships require consistency, if not continuity
Thought-provoking Six!
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I agree with ‘consistency, if not continuity’ part. Thank you, Clark!
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