Relationships - the prelude

I have been attending a forum in which we are discussing relationships ………..and I have set my thought process moving and there are going to be a series of posts from me about this seemingly endless topic.
“No man is an island by himself” is an apt line to start my blog. We are all social beings with some form of relationship with another person or group.
I am just thinking about the kinds of relationships:
• Personal Relationship (includes family – spouse, parents, siblings, relatives etc)
• Professional Relationship (includes colleagues, bosses, associations etc)
• Social Relationship (includes friends, forums, clubs, affiliations etc)

…………..Please feel free to add more that you can think of!!

One key learning was from a young friend of mine and he said “Relationships are based on Respect, Understanding and Trust(RUT), if you don’t have these, then your relationships are in a RUT”.

In the first and primary relationship, I am going to take a closer look at the relationship with a spouse.
I borrow heavily from John Gray’s book- “Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus”
I recommend anyone reading this post to read the book and the sequels to it to understand the fundamental differences in the way a man’s thinking and behaviour are different from a woman’s.
I am sure it will benefit a lot of us in our daily relationship with the opposite sex!

My life before "Singh is King"

The hindi movie Singh is King proves to be a thorn in my flesh!
Whenever I meet people, they invariably hum the tune or mouth the song! Granted that they are doing a mind mapping with my name, my face and the movie - but ..........
I wouldnt have a problem if I looked like Akshay Kumar or had a series of movie hits like him. The only hits I have are the ones on my car or the ones that my wife gives me regularly!
I wouldnt even mind the least if I had Kat as my heroine .............singing, teri ore!
Before the movie was released, people would call me "KING" with a bemused voice because the name is quite unique in this part of the world!
I have thoroughly enjoyed the unique name which made me stand out whenever i accomplished something and also got me into trouble in a group because it has a very good recall value.
I now have to share my name with a movie .....................blaaaah!
but I'm not singing .............