在人际关系中寻找平衡点

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  Host: 1)Relationship dynamics are always changing, whether it be work colleagues, partners, friends or adult children still living at home. 2)Quality time is becoming rare in our busy lives, yet how do we keep everyone happy and still have time for ourselves? Ah, it’s very difficult, and Deborah Hutton is here to give us some advice. Along with 3)well-being specialist Noni Boon who’s going to tell us how. Yet we do get time for it, don’t we Deborah. And in the end you can’t keep everybody happy. What can we do?
  Deborah Hutton: No. No. You can’t. Look, it’s interesting. You’re talking about sort of 4)prioritizing, reminds me of a thing my dentist said to me years ago. “Only 5)floss the teeth you want to keep”. Right? So you think, well what does that mean? It means if you don’t give it any love and attention, it’s just not going to be there for you. So, yes, it’s about prioritizing. It’s about really valuing those people in your life, and not taking them for granted, and really thinking about them as well as a really important part, not just yourself, because that’s what relationships are. They form part of our foundation, which gives us enormous strength and love.
  Host: Yeah, so, which applies to every relationship. And Noni, I might just ask you about the relationship with your partner. How do you find the time? What can you do to make sure that you do 6)nurture that relationship?
  Noni Boon: Well, I think if something’s important to you, you make the time, and it’s about making the time, so planning and prioritizing and actually just booking-in the time that you spend with your partner. I think that’s 7)crucial. Host: Yeah, a lot of people have “date night”. I guess that it’s a good thing to do.
  Noni: Yeah. Tuesday night, half price movies, making that a regular thing that you do. And then, also with family it’s making sure that, say for example, on a Sunday that the whole family gets together and you have Sunday lunch together, so that you control…
  Deborah: You can plug it in, plug it in to the diary.
  Noni: Yeah. Book it in. Book it in.
  Host: Okay.
  Noni: Yeah. And 8)diarize it.
  Host: One of the things, too, that you wanted to talk about, Noni, was to adult children still living at home. Tell us about that.
  Noni: Yes, well, just stepping back from mothering adult children and getting them to help out around the house so that it’s not taking your time, but it’s actually giving you a bit more time. So…   Host: But some parents still want that rela…Yeah, they’re reluctant to let go.
  Deborah: Well, it’s about them letting go, too. They have to take back their own independence in a way because they’ve been so needed and they are the nurturers, aren’t they, so it’s about time…they have to let go.
  Host: Yeah. And, it seems like every discussion that we have, social media comes into it somehow. It is a big distraction, and in some ways it can damage relationships too, can’t it?
  Deborah: Oh, absolutely! I think, you know, look, we engage these days greatly through social media. One of the biggest growth areas on Facebook is women, plus-50 women, and so what happens, you end up multi-tasking a lot of your relationships and your friendships. The danger in that, of course, is you’re losing that face-to-face one-on-one, and things can be misinterpreted because we’re not looking at each other in that tone that we share, when we sit down to have a cup of coffee and have a bit of a chat, and, you know, there’s certain things that we share which might be 9)inappropriate, some would deem that way, so it can danger[sic] some relationships, and it’s really, you’ve got to be very 10)mindful of the things that’re important.
  Host: It’s a real distraction too, isn’t it, because, you know, I see Mums at the playground, you know, and I’ve been guilty of it myself, where you’re just locked on to your phone…
  Noni&Deborah: Yeah.
  Host: …and just checked the kids’re there every now and then…
  Noni: Yeah.
  Host: …and it’s such a shame because there’s a child growing up seeing you addicted to a screen.
  Noni&Deborah: Yeah.
  Host: You’ve gotta put the phone away.
  Deborah: Look, it’s about looking at your relationships, each and every one of them, with your partner, with your family, with your loved ones, with your friends.
  Host: Umm.
  Deborah: And Naomi’s fantastic ’cause she challenges, she always challenges me to look at your relationships[sic], which is a hard thing to do from the outside looking back in, because it’s about finding time, importantly the quality of time that you have. Might not necessarily be a long time. Anyway, I’ve gotta do a bit of a quick quiz…
  Host: Okay.
  Deborah: …and it’s quite fun, and we’ve actually got it up on the site. It’s a quiz that sort of asks you, you know, it’s a very sort of multiple choice quiz about different situations, whether you’re sitting there and you’ve got the last piece of pizza, and you’re gonna share it or you’re gonna eat it yourself. Little things just naturally happen.   Host: Oh, okay. And we could do that on line.
  Deborah: We can do it on line. And what it does at the end of it will actually just give you a bit of a 11)rundown whether your relationship is balanced or perhaps it needs a little 12)reshuffling. Host: Okay. Well, we will be doing that. Thank you both for coming in.


  主持人:人际关系总是在变化中,不管是与同事、伴侣、朋友,还是仍旧赖在家里的成年孩子之间的关系,情况都是一样的。在我们繁忙的生活中,已经很少有休闲时间,但是我们如何在愉悦他人的同时空出时间给自己呢?啊,这真的很难。黛布拉·赫顿在这里将给我们一些建议,和她一道的还有健康专家诺丽·博恩,她会告诉我们,如何,额……嗯,我们确实有花时间去做,不是吗,黛布拉?到最后,你不能让每个人都开心。我们该怎么做呢?
  黛布拉·赫顿:不,不,你不能……听着,这很有趣,我们在谈论分清主次的问题。这让我想起了几年前牙医对我说的话:“只给你想保护的牙齿用牙线。”对吧?所以,你会想:好吧,这是什么意思?意思是,如果你没有给牙齿任何的爱护和关心,它不会在那等你,所以,是的,是要分清轻重缓急。珍惜你生命中的人,别不把他们当一回事,真的把他们看作真正重要的人,而不是只想着自己,因为这就是人际关系。它形成了我们的根基,给了我们无穷的爱与力量。
  主持人:对,那么,在每段关系中都是这样。诺丽,我也许能问问你和伴侣的关系。你怎么找出时间呢?你怎样做才能确保维持这段关系?
  诺丽·博恩:好吧,我认为,如果有些事对你来说是重要的,你就会抽出时间,只是抽出时间的问题。那么,作计划,分清主次,也就是“预定”你和伴侣相处的时间。我认为这很重要。
  主持人:嗯,很多人都会有“约会之夜”,我认为这样做很好。
  诺丽:嗯。星期二的晚上,半价的电影……把这些事日常化。而且,对家里人也要这样。确保,例如,在星期天,一家人聚在一起,一起在星期天共进午餐。这样你就可以控制……
  黛布拉:然后把它们记下来,记在日记本上。
  诺丽:对。预定下来,预定下来。
  主持人:好的。
  诺丽:嗯,然后写进日记里。
  主持人:诺丽,你还想说的其中一件事,就是关于成年孩子仍然住在家里的问题,跟我们说说吧。
  诺丽:对,好吧,不要照顾成年孩子,让他们分担家务,这样就不会占用你的时间,还能给你更多的时间,所以……主持人:但是一些父母还是希望维持这段关系……嗯,他们不想放手。
  黛布拉:好吧,他们也要放手。他们事实上要找回自己的独立性,因为他们一直都被需要,他们是照顾别人的人,不是吗?因此他们是时候放手了。
  主持人:对,看起来我们讨论的每个问题,都在受到社交媒体的影响。这是很大的一个干扰,在某种程度它还能破坏我们的人际关系,是吗?
  黛布拉:噢,绝对会,我想,你知道的,听着,现如今,我们都离不开社交媒体。年过50的女性在脸书的使用者中增长最快。那么,你最后就要同时处理多种关系,你与朋友的关系。这其中的危机,当然就是你失去了面对面,一对一的交流,误解就会产生。因为我们不看着对方,(更不会知道对方的语调),而这些语调是我们坐下来喝咖啡闲聊时产生的。而且,你知道的,我们分享的某些事情是不恰当的,有些我们是这样认为的。所以这样会破坏一些关系。这真的……你一定要对重要的事情上心。
  主持人:社交媒体真的也是个影响,不是吗?因为,你知道的,我看到很多妈妈在游乐场上(陪孩子玩),你知道的,我很自责——在那儿你们盯着自己的手机……
  黛布拉和诺丽:对。
  主持人:……只是不时看看孩子在哪。诺丽:对。
  主持人:……这真的是个耻辱,因为孩子们是看着你如何沉迷手机长大的。黛布拉和诺丽:对。
  主持人:你必须把手机拿走。
  黛布拉:听着,要与你的伴侣、家人、爱的人、朋友一起来审视你们的每段关系。
  主持人:嗯。
  黛布拉:诺丽很厉害,因为她挑战,她总是挑战我,让我看看自己的人际关系,这对于我来说,从外向内审视自己的关系,真的很难。因为这需要找出时间,更重要的是,要有闲暇的时间,不一定要很长时间。我要做一个小测……
  主持人:好的.
  黛布拉:它很有趣,事实上我们是在网上找到的。但是这是一个问你,你知道的,在不同情景让你有多项选择的小测。例如你坐在那里,剩下最后一块披萨,你是打算分享它,还是独自把它吃了?小事总是自然地发生。
  主持人:噢,好的,我们可以在网上做.
  黛布拉:我们可以在网上做,最后,它会给你一个总结,判断你的人际关系是和谐,还是需要修补。主持人:好的,我们会去做。谢谢二位的到来。
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