A relationship is a bond between two people, whether good or bad. Everyone has them, and everyone needs them. We all have friends and enemies, family and acquaintances, and the relationship we have with them will forever have an impact on our own lives. Without relationships, we are nothing more than a pile of atoms bouncing around in the world
Every person should try to forge as many relationships as possible. In careers, it is often called networking. By meeting as many people as possible, we can build relationships that may enhance our current careers or give us new opportunities. The same applies in personal settings. By meeting more people, we will make new friends, or have a life experience that we couldn’t have without that initial relationship building.
As mentioned in the previous question, meet as many people as possible. Say hello to the person in front of you at the grocery store, hold the door open for a stranger, or congratulate someone on a job well done. By doing the little things, we will strengthen the relationships we have, and create new ones. Without relationships, we will not grow as people.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with relationships. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Relationships
- Convincing partner to change their ways – frustrating due to their stubborness to change and inability to see the damage being caused to their health by continuing on the current path. I use numerous tools to manipulate conversations to the same outcome but he always manages to have a smart answer!
- Dog sitting for my parents new rescue dog has been one of the more frustrating things I’ve had to do in the last few days. It has been so hard to be needed so badly. My husband and I are not used to the responsibility as well as the anxiety if the dog. We have had a hard time coping with her anxiety.
- I am trying to decide whether to sell or hold a house that my husband and I no longer live near, so that we can acquire a property close enough for us to use. Its a complex decision that also includes a fair amount of sentimentality — it was our first house that we bought as newlyweds, and we made changes to tailor it to our taste and lifestyle. Weighing matters with both head and heart is not an easy task and can be very frustrating when it seems the head has figured out the best path but the heart doesn’t feel right about it.
- I bowl with my husband, not because I like bowling. More to support our team and my husbands hobby. He is very passionate about bowling and it drives him crazy that I don’t like it. I’ve done it for 20 years and still am not good at it and don’t like it. Tonight, this caused an argument. He told me to find someone who likes to do the things I like to do….he blows things out of context. I hate arguing over such silly, piddly things.
- I had to pull a party together; I’m an introvert and don’t like the cost and hassle of hosting parties at home. But my husband really wanted to throw one this year, so we did. I had tons of anxiety leading right up to the when the party started. Everything was fine, it was a great party, but I hated everything that came before it (and the cleanup too!)
- I had to realize that it wasn’t healthy for me to want revenge on those who have wronged me or hurt me. I had to tell myself to let it go. It was frustrating because its not fair that those who have wronged me or hurt me are getting away with what they have done.
- I had to watch a guy come in and take my role in the life of the girl I like for a day and it frustrated me because we had began to get close and then this guy just comes in a screws it all up taking any attention I had from her away.
- I think the most frustrating thing I’ve had to deal with at home is the lack of communication my fiance has. He does not like to share his feelings, and it creates a barrier at times because I have nothing to go off of when trying to fix problems or come to conclusions.
- I was left in despair, when I decided to pursue a girl I was intrigued into. The cause of sorrow was due to the fact my dad left a spontaneous decision to leave my unstable home. I have always wanted to just go out into the unknown, I just went for it. She said yes, but then the event triggered our plans away, I soon bawled like a baby.. Or something of the sort. I felt like my dads continuous irresponsibility drove her away, so I am left with being patient with what I have, until I find the moment to strike.
- In my graduate class, I had to stand face-to-face with my partner, a classmate that I barely know, and tell him everything we covered in the past 2.5 hours in class. This was extremely frustrating for me because my brain had basically already started to shut down for the night. This happened at about 7:30pm, I had been awake since 5:00am, and am a morning person, so my energy was gone, and when I am in an intimidating position (face-to-face with a guy I barely know and a one-minute time frame) like this, my brain does not quickly recall things that I have just learned.
- It’s been frustrating to get a particular role off my plate. First I delayed getting to that decision, then once I decided, I delayed calling my informal partner in the project. Now, I am playing phonetag with the person because I don’t want to leave it as a voicemail. I’m getting frustrated with how long it takes to officially get off the project.
- It’s the idea of finding a solid path to walk on. While in community college for longer than expected, I soar in most classes, but crash in math. I need to find an avenue to walk so I can support my soon to be wife and myself, with the potential of starting a family comfortably.
- My husband invited a bunch of people to the house without asking me first. We are in the process of unpacking the house since we just moved in and I got frustrated because the house isn’t really ready for guests. It was frustrating because he didn’t speak with me first, and because I had to rush home and try to clear boxes out of the main living areas so that we could have them over.
- My husband passed away three months ago and, at first, I handled things well enough. Recently, I have begun making mistakes that I NEVER would have in the past. I am sure that I’ve done things correctly and then, when I look back, I find mistakes all over the place. Turning the coffee pot on instead of off and ending up with coffee all over the counter, losing my keys because I put them somewhere I never have before, etc., etc. I’m told this will pass eventually (I hope!) but right now it’s THE most frustrating thing I’m dealing with.
- My partner and I were putting up picture frames on the wall. Every configuration she tried she said didn’t look right and wanted to re-do it. I thought it looked fine and wanted to leave it up, more because I was tired of taking down and putting up pictures than any real strong opinions about the configuration. I just wanted to complete the task and move on.
- Seeing the person I love having an accident and not being able to talk to him or see whether he is OK and fine or not. due to conflicts between us. And it is frustrating because when I care and love people I do it genuinely and I’m not an easy to move on person.
- Sit in the emergency room with my husband for ten hours. It was frustrating because it was my draughts birthday and I wanted to be home with her on her special day but I wanted to be with my husband as week because I felt he needed me more at the time.
- So yesterday, I went to this church concert type thing at Rupp Arena and we had to wait in line for 4 hours outside in order to get good seats when we went in. One of my youth minister people, Marshal, had brought a scavenger hunt bingo game for us to do while we were waiting so we wouldn’t get bored. We had to find people who had or did something specific and take a picture/video of them to prove that they exist. Most of the people me and my partner, Dylan, asked couldn’t relate to any of the talents or whatever so we walked around for like an hour through hundreds of people in line asking random people stupid questions.
- The Latest Thing I Really Had Trouble With Is This Girl Who Took My Effort For Granted. I Thought My Actions And The Work I Put In Was More Than Satisfying, But It Turned Out That She Never Liked Me Anyways. It Was Such A Frustrating Thing To Take In And More Heart Wrenching That I Was Going For Something That Was Never There…. But I’ve Come To Look At It As A Lesson More Than Anything: If Its Crazy Passion Love, Than Are More Important Things In The World To Do Than To Just Love.
- The most frustrating thing that I had to do In the recent past was to get my marriage certificate registered. The people in the office of the district magistrate I was dealing with was incompetent, lazy and corrupt to the core. And it was from the Magistrate to the office clerk. I wasted the whole day to get a signature. Me, my husband, my sister and her 3 year old daughter waited and ran around from one office to another from 10.00 am till 07.30 pm. However, when I received the certificate registered at 07.30 pm I was a little happy about the fact that I did not bribe anyone for it and very sad at the state of my country and people.
- The most frustrating thing that I have had to do in the last few days, was that my Uncle refused to come to my wedding because I hadn’t invited him to my bachelor party. It was frustrating because I felt insulted that he would let that honest mistake influence his decision on whether to help my wife and I celebrate our nuptials.
- The most frustrating thing was past Saturday’s boxing class. There was a guy Shanti that I haven’t seen in awhile and he was a newbie when I first met him. I took him under my wing, showed him a bunch of basics and we hung out (watched a few fights). But then we had our kid and I have just recently gotten back to boxing. Anyhow we partnered up with mitts and he was like advising me. At the end of it, he was like the coaches want me to start sparring on Wednesdays/Fridays nights. He was like I can start with you, you come Friday’s right? Was insulted because I showed him the game.
- The person I love (but not currently in relationship with) told me that he want to travel somewhere new instead of coming home and meet me (we both live in different countries but he knows that I can return home and meet him any time he wants) he treat me okay but that frustrate me cos it confirm that he really doesn’t love me or care about me
- To face that things are changing and it will never be how it used to be. This is/was frustrating because my life is changing from what I always knew, and it all took me by surprise and because of all the surprising changes I have lost some relationships I was trying (and almost succeeded) to form.
- Unfortunately I’m not the most patient person, so after approximately two hours of unsuccessfully trying to efile my 2013 tax returns I decided to share my frustration with my husband who happens to be in another country. The situation was (and remains) quite annoying because I’d already paid the TurboTax fees for a state return as well as the “Home and Business” federal return. At my husband’s advise and after much wasted time online, I decided to take a break from TurboTax; I will check it out another time before the April deadline.
- Watching how my semi-crush talks to some other girls I don’t know and laugh happily. this is frustrating because I sorta like him and it seems as though he likes me and everyone says he likes me but I really don’t think so and so then I feel like I shouldn’t like him either.
- We went an bought a new faimly member (maximus) home from pet sotre, it was a consicennce decisions by both me and my wife to get the pet. After a day or so she changed her mind and wanted to return the Pet back and I had to have a lot of discussions with her to help her understand it is a decision we took togather, now we live up to it and honor our commitment to the pet.
- We were installing a new sliding glass door at home and my husband doesn’t like to ask for outside help. The door was staged on the back of his truck for delivery and too heavy for the two us to lift off. I watched in frustration for 2 1/2 hours as he tried to unassemble it to remove. I repeatedly asked to get our neighbors for help and he wouldn’t. 2 1/2 hours later he finally gave in and we asked. It took less than 5 minutes and we had it off his truck.