Graphs!

I mentioned a graph in my last podcast episode and here it is. I call it my "Relationship Satisfaction" graph.

You'll see that relationships have times of rollercoaster-type of emotions. And you'll notice that things haven't been spectacular for the both of us for the past few years, right? I'm not going to go into too much detail about it but you can see for the most part I was a happy man. And I guess you're curious why the graph doesn't look like this:

Well, I don't think anybody can be 100% happy with the quality of their relationship. Everybody has good times and bad times. Sometimes things people say things to you and it's so hurtful, the relationship can't go back to the point it was before. I think everybody starts out at the point where they ask themselves "Is this the right thing to do?" You tend to build a little bit of caution into what you're going into. Once a person is comfortable where they are, then the happiness increases and just major things happen along the way. What lead to the demise of this relationship? Lack of communication and also different cultural beliefs. I'd have to work hard to "change myself" which is a dramatic kind of change. And after trying for so long to please someone else, you get to a point where you don't want to do it anymore.

Oh, and if you want to make fun graphs for your presentations and to show how nerdy you are, try OmniGraphSketcher for Mac.