Interpersonal Relationships.
Relationships, something you really have to take care of, they are not easy, not at all, the interaction between human beings has never been easy. Humans are in the need of relating to other humans because we are genetically designed as social beings, so if a human does not interact with another it creates loneliness relates to sadness which relates to madness. (see relation, everything is related).
Of course as far as I know, I am a human, since I was a baby I started relating to other humans (as necessary) first it was my little family (mom,dad, sister), then it was my big family (uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins etc.) , there is when my first socialization began and all those people are the ones who mark in your life the way (good or bad) you are going to relate with others, then it was school, and so it went. First I think that before knowing how to treat someone you have to know how to treat yourself in the first place, people are very complicated to establish a relationship with someone is far more complex. Let’s start off with your family, the people whom you share a home (time and space) in a home there are rules for having a better coexistence between the other beings you are living with, for example chores you have to do for keeping the space clean, time you have to respect, because it is not only your time you are sharing it with x number of people, respect , you have to learn to respect the other, stuff, space, etc. Well the truth is that these rules apply for all society but the thing is that not everyone follows them as they should. Then it goes friendship, this one is a hard one, a friend is someone apart from your family, someone you do not share with the others who live with you, whose only yours “your friend”, he shares interests, time and experiences with you, the both go out into the wilderness of society and start to socialize, to relate, in a friendship both give their effort to make it work (as in all relationships). Then there is a boyfriend-girrlfriend relationship, that one is someone who you share something called love, also interests and one complements the other, this relationship leads to a more serious one, marriage.
As we can see in the book relating is not easy at all (as I mentioned before), like I have heard somewhere you never get to know someone completely, not even yourself, so maybe you get married to “the love of your life” , you think you know him or her completely and suddenly BAM he turns out to be mad, a serial killer, gay (as we can see in the Book in Blanche’s situation with her first husband), ezquisofrenic (just like Blanche), or with some kind of strange personality disorder and he or she hits you or rapes your sister (like Stanley), but you don’t careof anything of that because you love him or her and you are also nuts because you enjoy being treated badly, so your area masoquist (Just like Stella).
As we can see in the book, Blanche is a lonely woman with the need of attention, love, and physical contact, since she first had a love failure; her life started to become a dark and lonely hole and her sanity drowned with it; her way for relating and her way of thinking with others became very superficial. So when she starts having troubles back Belle Reve, instead of facing the music she foolishly decided to run away to another place which was something lke her doom because there was the place were all finished.
But well, relationships are hard but necessary that is why we need to learn how to keep them, I think such a thing as an “ideal” relationship does not exist but there is a functional relationship, so yes you can make it work, just by using respect, patience, will, love, control, and perseverance. Because it is something you have to keep feeding like an animal or plant because other wise it will die.
