A Few Relationship Lessons That I Learned On The Streets.

Everywhere you go, there you are.

Sometimes you’ll be walking down the street and another person will be walking towards you, and you’ll kind of get in each other’s way. How you deal with this type of situation says a lot about you.

It can go a few different ways. Sometimes, due to logistical factors, or the age or manoeuvrability of the other person, or the things they might be carrying or whatever, you should be the one to move. Maybe you failed to realise this because you were too busy staring at your phone. How readily do you recognise this? How easy is it for you to get out of the way? What level of appreciation do you expect for your efforts?

Conversely, there are times when it’s clear that the other person should be the one to make way. You might reasonably expect them to see that you’re carrying something heavy and awkward, or that for some reason it’s harder for you to get out of their way than it is for them to get out of yours. What do you do? Do you move anyway? Do you communicate that you can’t move or that it’s difficult to do so? How? What do you do if, for whatever reason, the other person hasn’t realised that they should move and doesn’t?

Then you have the true “fifty-fifty”s. There’s no obvious reason why either of you should get…