Making an effort in a relationship

Re: Making an effort in a relationship

A friend and I were talking the other day and one of the messages that we get from parents/relatives is, if he meets the “requirements” and you can bardasht him, love and affection and respect will happen. That sounds wrong in so many ways to me. To TLK’s point, I would feel as if I was the one to lack sincerity in that relationship and that I wasn’t being true to myself and was doing him a disservice.