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In our busy and ever changing world; we are always busy with ourselves, chasing our short as well as long range goals. Selfishly, we all run blindly towards our needs, which are definitely more self centered. Belongingness or affiliation is a major need, and we struggle till our last breath to fulfill our needs of intimacy. And this is pretty very much normal, because we all need a partner at a certain point in our life, to subside the feelings of isolation. A partner is someone with whom we can connect mentally, emotionally and physically. It is something more than mere attachment and attraction. Partners share mutual sense of respect, love, trust and affection. Due to our cultural and social interaction with our environment and family we all form mental representations of our world, which helps us to further interact with our environment. This mental model or representations start forming from our very childhood. Similarly, our knowledge, symbolizations and representations of a p...

To cover up things is one of the most basic instincts of human life. Though we claim a lot to live by the instincts of other animals, we, as a social animal, in my opinion, fail the species. How hard is it to admit a simple truth and get things done with? Pretty simple! Right? But that is one of the hardest tasks when it comes to an individual behavior. For a bitter truth that may appear rude and negative, we come up with something smoother but more negative when viewed from a macro perspective. Let us take an example to have a better hold of the thought. An example Suppose you are talking to a person over a phone call and suddenly you do not feel like continuing with the conversation. You have an easy option to relay your true feelings and disconnect the call. But the human instincts prevent us from that. The most common thing we would do in such an occasion is behaving rudely with the person. Is it the outcome of the event that you do not want to carry on with the...