I sit here thinking about many things that impact on health and well-being. Health is an individual goal that each of us is required to travel alone. The people you bring along to help you are only there is assist; they cannot live your health for you. This means any doctor you choose to see is there to assist you but you must take and active role in your own health by asking questions and participating in your own recovery or rehabilitation.
I don’t think you can have a good sense of health of you do not have a satisfying amount of social interaction.
What does that mean?
Sorry for the cop-out in this answer but I can’t tell you – one person’s satisfying amount of interaction is another person’s loneliness or being crushed by too much togetherness.
I think we have all heard the definition of how an extrovert differs from an introvert: the company of others wears out an introvert while being around others energizes an extrovert.
In life, we have learned that we are all a little of both, it all depends on who that company is. This is the same thing with social interaction – we all need it at time and we all need to be away from it at times and be by ourselves. The deciding factor is for what is the right amount depends who, what, and how much with a specific person and this is our personal issue.
A bad marriage is not better than any marriage at all: it will stress you and make you want to have a short life. An unasked for divorce will do the same, the idea of being rejected by someone we decided to commit the rest of our lives to. Unfortunately, a bad marriage that shouldn’t last can be coupled with a divorce (no matter how much it is necessary) that was unasked for (but necessary).
While I have often preached “you must never let a person, place, or thing be the source of your emotional highs and lows” it is hard to really live that philosophy, no matter how much it is important to embrace it.
Sometimes a person is a source of our emotional highs and lows and sometimes it is necessary to uncouple for your own health. We can only suppose that this is so that if we choose to couple again, that relationship will be healthier.
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