Daily Prompt December 30, 2025

 December 30, 2025

What relationships have a positive impact on you?

This could encompass many various answers.

I have a strong, spiritually bonded relationship with my two “same litter sister” Chorkies, “Pringles” and “Ruffles”.

The relationship we are Blessed to share with our “pets”, (I so dislike that term!, I prefer “furbabies”), is as true and positive as a relationship can possibly be.

Our animal companions know nothing of deceit, bigotry, hatred or any other human fault.

If your dog loved you yesterday then he loves you more today and twice as much tomorrow.

When I come home my girls sing doggy songs and spin in circles of joy each and every time.

With devotion and affectionate true love is how they reward me for being their alpha male, their provider of the necessities of our shared lives.

In my 68 and a half years I have had many relationships of numerous varieties.

“Flirty, casual, drunken, sober, responsible, irresponsible, resistant, irresistible” and many others.

I learned that the singular common denominator of all those relationships, excluding the animal relationships, was:

“DOUBT“

No matter how serious and affectionate the relationship appears, no matter what your intelligence and emotions assure you, there will be a subliminal “DOUBT ” lurking just below the surface of your subconscious.

It’s a genetic “fault”.

We are born with it.

We ignore it as we age.

Burying it deep down in the archives of our mind.

Out of the thousands of species of living creatures on the planet, we, the self-labelled “superior beings” are the only ones who are born with:

“DOUBT”

I doubt that the animals wish they had doubt.

They have such a strong self respect and self love that “DOUBT” has no place in their lives.

So, when it comes to “positive relationships”, I have no doubt that sooner or later we all meet “The One”.

Our first true love.

The type that kisses sweet and kisses “neat” and can make things stand that have “no feet”.

The positive relationship that teaches you how to hide away your genetically inherited fault called:

“DOUBT”

For if you do not hide it away, then it will continuously bounce around in your mind until it manifests itself as:

“Mistrust”

Then one morning you will awake to an empty bed.

Because mistrust has caused many women to have fled.

Want a truly positive relationship?

Lose that:

“DOUBT”

To your loved one pour your heart out.

Or, be like me and get yourself a dog or two or three