It starts with doubting another person’s love for you and goes to doubting your own capability of being loved. Suspicion does not need proof and builds on itself. First you will be suspicious of a look your partner gives another one, then you will think that perhaps they are doing things behind your back, then you will have visions of being lied to… Suspicion feeds itself on your subconscious fears.

Once you start looking for signs that your partner MIGHT be cheating on you, you will never stop… Till you either decide on some vague sign that you are being cheated on or destroy your relationship by constantly voicing your suspicions to your partner. And no matter how much your partner loves you, if you constantly doubt their intentions, snoop on them and have a fight even if they so much as happen to glance in another’s direction, your relationship is headed downhill. Constant suspicion is not a good thing.

With interaction between the opposite sex having gone up manifold – be it work, social networking, traveling on the metro, etc – insisting on complete exclusivity in your relationship is naïve. You cannot expect your partner NOT to have any interaction with another person. Neither can you expect your partner not to like another simply because we make friends with people we like.

Yes, lines have to be drawn about that ‘liking’ for another; but that’s something both you and your partner have to mutually decide. But even before you set rules in your relationship, you have to AGREE to trust your partner...