How to know whether a relationship is good for you? || Acharya Prashant (2019)
Question: There are lot of things that are going on in my life right now. Right now I am eighteen, and I have just finished my Class 12th Board exams. Two years back I started turning into a very bad girl, and that started causing loss of my parents’ trust.
They started keeping an eye on all of my actions, and asked me to keep some promises I was forced to make. Eventually after a year I exploded, because I was told to become a person that I was not. Then, I fell in love with a boy. According to me I was not doing anything wrong, so I went ahead until my mother caught me one day.
My parents tried to convince me that it was not love. I want to ask, “What is love?”
Acharya Prashant: Is there really a need to debate whether a particular word can be ascribed to a relationship? Right now the debate seems to be whether or not it is ‘love’. You are saying, “It is love,” they are saying, “It is not love.”
Questioner: I don’t know what love is.
Acharya Prashant: Should you rather not ask, “What is it doing to me?” Even if its ‘love’ let’s say, some International agency comes and certifies that it is love, but if it is not healthy for you, would you proceed with it?
