Equality in Relationships

Throughout our lives we see many relationships get started up, and at the same time we witness the breaking up of these relationships. Trust, communication, equality, and respect become key factors essential to a relationship, positioned in your way of thought in ways like parents, school, church, TV, friends, self experience and more. Equality is the one thing that at times, voluntarily or not, gets pushed out of sight giving way to specific gender roles. More harmful than not, is how these inscribed roles can be the cause to end a relationship.
In the article “Who’s Cheap?” Adair Lara speaks of how while women have the desire to be treated equally to men, they associate men as the ones responsible for taking care of the economical part of the relationship. Adair doesn’t agree to this idea, and she goes through her reading showing and poising examples on how this is a double standard. At a time, I found myself involved in this false notion of being a gentleman, and soug...