>>33356375>isnt that how humans work?Nta, but yes that is partly how humans work, but only partly. Transactional relationships are okay – if it’s with your boss, teacher, employee, student, colleague, classmate, co-worker.
But with friends, family, and romantic relationships it’s cancerous. There’s a time and a place for transaction. And expecting it in a relationship is the wrong time and wrong place.
Relationships should be about reciprocity, not transaction. Reciprocity & transaction are similar, both mean that both parties are giving to one another. But transaction has no love in it. Transaction is about self interested. Giving only for the aim of getting in return. It’s fuelled by ego.
Reciprocity is about selfless interest. Giving just for the sake of giving, no motive of returns. Doing it because you simply love the other. And the other freely chooses to return the gesture with no pressure or expectation of return. It’s fuelled by love.
When it becomes increasingly obvious that the relationship is running off of transactional fumes, sex usually stops. Because theres no love there. And no love = no security as far as the woman is concerned. No security = higher anxiety or self doubt or doubting the relationship, losing faith in oneself or even losing faith in their partner. Sex runs dry. Because sex is the most vulnerable act a human can be in, naked, skin to skin, pouring out emotions for the other to witness via body gesture and vocals.
And when someone stops feeling secure in the relationship once they learn the love aint there, sex goes bye bye.