Living a life of Integrity in your Relationships...

Friends - we have already read...

What is Integrity??

Why live with Integrity? 

How to practice Integrity? 

Living a life of Integrity at Work

Today is the last part of this series...

Living a life of Integrity in Relationships..

 

In Personal Relationships...

Be an open book. 

Don’t keep secrets from your significant other. Even if the secrets don’t affect her, if she finds out you’ve been keeping stuff from her, it will erode the trust between you.

Avoid emotional cheating. 

Having integrity in regards to physical cheating is a given. Harder is avoiding emotional cheating, a straying that seems more innocuous at first, but easily leads to the corporeal variety. 

End a relationship when you know it’s over. 

If you have reached the point where you know you two don’t have a future together, don’t keep dragging because you’re afraid to end things. Break up with respect.

With Friends & all other relationships...

Keep your promises. 

Always, always follow-through with the things you have said you will do. A person’s word is his bond. 

Don’t talk smack about other people.  

Saying something behind someone’s back that you wouldn’t say to their face shows a distinct lack of integrity.

Be the vault.  

When friend trusts you with confidential information, lock those secrets away. Nothing erodes a friendship faster then a breach of trust in the secret department.
 

Few good quotes on Integrity...

“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
 

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
 

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.  ~William Shakespeare
 

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.  

There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.  ~J.C. Watts