The Moral Role Of Personal Responsibility In Personal Relationships

Personal responsibility is a moral cause that an individual chooses to show accountability for one’s own actions, specifically in personal relationships. Garath Williams (2013) contends that personal responsibility involves parties in a personal relationship who “not only share responsibility for their relationship, but also – to some degree that is negotiated between them – for one another’s lives” (p. 351). Moreover, personal relationships are formed through mutual respect of individuals. Similar to this sentiment, Williams (2013) expresses his definition of personal relationships as “forms of sustained interaction that involve a distinctively personal form of mutual concern” (p. 351). Those relationships are made of family and a formed bond that creates friendship and marriage. Within the relationships, especially monogamous partners and marriages, both parties also share responsibility for the own actions or conduct. However, “both parties must, in order to sustain their relationship, find a mutually agreeable way to deal with whatever wrongs one or both of them perceive” (Williams, 2013, p. 361). Therefore, personal responsibility affects the health of an effective personal relationship (such as marriage) that is directed by, to name an important few, emotional …show more content…
When being intimate with your partner, an individual has to enjoy the company of their mate, conversations, interactions, sharing feelings, and making love with each other. However at any point in the relationship wherein one is unfaithful, the relationship becomes compromised. The unfaithful action or infidelity can lead to the demise of the relationship, if not mutually resolved. More so, the misbehavior of the individual usually comes from self-abandonment (Paul, 2013). Therefore, in order to maintain a healthy relationship filled with intimacy, an individual must continue to learn emotional