Healthy relationships add spice to your life

I haven’t written a book report since high school, so it’s been a few years, but I just finished reading “The Let Them Theory” by Mel Robbins and thought it deserves a shout out.

None of us breezes through life unscathed by criticism, disappointment, rejection, betrayal, confusion, misunderstanding or some sort of pain resulting from relationships that don’t work well. 

It begins in childhood with our interaction with our parents and teachers, and trying to make friends in school. When we get into our teens, those same challenges are there, compounded by our physical and emotional changes as we enter puberty. Young adulthood adds the pressures of post-high school training and adjusting to a new set of friends, along with the very critical challenge of finding the proper mate to share our life. As we begin our work life, we have employers and co-workers to deal with daily. All of these relationships, throughout our lives, affect the quality of our days and nights. 

Whether we are children, teens, young adults or mature adults (whatever that means), we struggle with making relationships work. It seems to be an ongoing and compounding challenge. However, when relationships work well, everything else works well. 

This book points out that loving people as they are, and loving yourself as you are, is the key to living peacefully with others. The understanding of human nature in relation to others is what puts that key in your hand. 

“The Let Them Theory” addresses all of the categories of relationships that we encounter in our lifetime, and especially addresses the reasons that we struggle with many of them. It speaks about heavy issues in simple terms, with a sense of humor to lighten the delivery, and is relevant to people from teens to adults.

Reading this book has helped me realize that, even late in life, I can heal from relationships that have hurt me or held me back in the past. That’s why I feel it’s important to pass the knowledge on. 

The Big Horn County Library system has several copies of this book, and the Lovell Library will bring it in on request. If you are struggling with any relationship and wish to make it better, get hold of a copy of this book. You’ll be glad you did yourself this favor.

Now ponder this: When I did a search for relationship quotes, I found these opening statements at keepinspiring.me more meaningful than the actual quotes:

These relationship quotes show there is nothing more challenging or rewarding than developing good relationships with others. 

Establishing and maintaining healthy relationships is one of the most important things we’ll do in our lives.

Whether they are based on romance, friendship or kinship, having the support of others makes us feel valued, confident and happy.

While relationships aren’t always easy, they are some of the greatest gifts we have.