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The Worst Relationship Advice EVER THE FOUNDATION
The Burj Khalifa located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is the world’s tallest building.
With a total height of 829.8 m (2,722 ft, just over half a mile).
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For this building to be this tall and stand without toppling over because of the fierce dessert winds that blow against it, it not only needs to be aerodynamically designed, but it also needs a world class foundation.
The Burj Khalifa’s foundation is over 45,000 m3 of concrete, weighing over 110,000 tonnes, configured as 192 piles buried over 50 m (164 ft) below the earth’s surface. Its main purpose is to support the weight of the building above.
The Burj Khalifa that hosts hotels, restaurants and stores that serve thousands of people daily would collapse.
Just as a building requires a firm and deep foundation to go high, so does your relationship. For people to feel safe living in the Burj Khalifa they need assurance that no hurricane or earthquake will bring it crashing down. The engineers, architects, masons, carpenters and other construction workers had to design and build the building with the elements of nature in mind.
Therefore, the foundation of your relationship must be built with knowledge and understanding of the elements that may cause your relationship to collapse.
Now most of us go into romantic relationships purely on the basis that we are attracted to the other person. We don’t typically give much thought to the foundation especially in the early stages. Then when the winds come against our building it topples over. Many people at this point are left confused and befuddled because they remember how amazing their partner was at first and now it seems they just can’t get back to that happy place. If the foundation that the relationship was built on had faults because of a lack of understanding.
Then it is possible to conclude that the ingredients the couple used were probably structural and not foundational. Structural ingredients include love languages, gender roles, date nights, baecations, money and physical attraction. This all can help push the building toward the sky. But they all suck as foundational ingredients.
