What Stresses You? Part 2

One thing that you can’t do anything about is the relationship you have with your parents and family, but you can try to keep the stress as little as possible. Don’t try to have a storybook or television family because they were invented for entertainment and are not blueprints for real families. Trying to be like those families is probably one of the biggest stressors that face people today. Everyone has problems with their family, so you are probably not alone. Friends are another part of relationships, except that you can do something different there. You choose your friends but you can’t choose your family. My girlfriend (an only child) gave me a magnet that says “Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves”. So if you don’t feel that way about your friends, then you should probably choose new ones so you can lessen your stress.

Romantic relationships need to be considered with family and friends. Sometimes we try to stick out a relationship that we are romantically involved in rather than look for a person where you don’t have so many problems. When people are dating, problems that will arise after marriage are already starting to develop. That is when it is smart to determine if the relationship should be continued or dropped if there are too many stressors. I am not saying that once you are in a long term relationship, such as marriage, that you should just quit on the relationship because there is stress. There is always some stress in marriages and you should try to figure out better solutions than running away.

While you are trying to figure out what your greatest stressors are, you need to consider many other sources such as money, physical health, body image and fitness. We have considered the main two stressors, work and relationships.

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