A relationship is love and appreciation being shared between two people while at the same time they are indulging themselves in each others lives. A relationship is a connection between two individuals whether it is mother and child, male and female, or friend and friend. A relationship can be defined as something sacred, something meant to be shared between two people over a period of time. In the essay "On Friendship" written by Francine Du Plessix Gray she gives her perspective on the relationship between men and women.
"Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy" this is a quote from Francine Du Plessix Gray. She believed that there wasn't any such thing as true love that with love you get a false sense of what's real. Varying opinions and conflicting perspectives can quickly lead to disagreements and animosity between people. However relationships formed with others all have positive and negative aspects to them. Unfortunately when people consider starting a new relationship with one another each individual takes into account what that person has to offer, today people focus more on what a person can get out of