Let’s start of general: life seems to be all about relationships, or in other words, knowing people, whether it’s family, mates, partners or boy/girlfriends. It seems that if you have pretty good relationships you have a pretty good life. Obviously this isn’t the scene most of the time. There is stuff that gets in the way: jealousy, selfish attitudes, cheating, competition, not enough trust and annoying habits. With mates, when probs come, if you are from the nice side town you may keep your distance, move on but not forgetting. But switch, face them and fight them for others. But is there a better way? Jesus teaches that you are to forgive your bruv if he wrongs you, not just once but always. This is radical. Even though doing this might not seem to make sense from experience us and other Christians have seen that God’s ways are good, better, the best! You forgive and you can truly move on. You forgive and God forgives you for the times you’ve messed up. You forgive and you feel happy. You forgive and you’re more likely to stay out of A&E, think about it. You forgive and God gives you a new start, a new chance. You forgive and you can face your mate.

Just some quick advice from the Bible about cheating. Cheating is not good, not even out of revenge. The Bible says the person who commits adultery (cheats on someone) destroys his/her own soul. The anger of the partner when he/she finds out will be so much that not even offering many presents will take it away. The Bible also says the words of the person that seduces you to cheat will be like sweet, smooth words but in the end the seducer will be as sharp as a knife and bitter as ’wormwood’. The seducer’s ways are unstable and hidden. If you give in, you will give your life to cruel destruction and your respect will be taken away and given to others. If you give in you are making a public fool of yourself, yes, things spread around quickly. (There is more about this kind of thing in sex).

Family relationships are dealt with in the other section on broken families.
Boy/girl relationships could do with one whole website to write about. Most of us look for security in relationships but this is a bit of a mistake coz its not there. Because everyone is imperfect and sinful, with selfishness, deceit…, your partner is no different and will let you down, sometimes big time. And even if he/she doesn't you still find yourself worrying that they might cheat on you, hurt you or give up on you. Basically worrying and needing constant attention means you’re not secure. But we weren’t meant to find security in other people. We are meant to find it in God. People like us that know Him have seen that we can trust him, that he controls the world so we can live at peace and that he is faithful and wants the best for us. You might think: how can someone say they know God, you can't even see Him? To find out see home and in relationships 2