Decrease Relationship Needs & Increase Wealth

$760 per year or $63.33 per month.

The best insurance plan in Ghana costs any person aged 0 - 59 years old cost $760 per year. Like all insurance, the potential payout is larger, at least 2x for this plan. Considering an emergency appendectomy costs about $300 complete with two full days of hospital admission, drugs, surgeon fees, etc. from the best hospital in Tamale where we live, this is some serious coverage.

My needs and expectations for medical care are different as a resident of Ghana than in the USA.

Shared rooms, maybe even crowded hospital rooms, don’t bother me. Exposure to more of my environment via open windows and more people with more germs, don’t bother me either. Thinking of “hospital” as a USA-type of “clinic” is comfortable in my mind.

I have a wealth of health because I’ve changed my perspective and access to what I need.

Just like material wealth, relationship wealth should first build on erasing debts and living within our means.

You are at the center of deciding what you need in friendships. Normal caveats for what comes next. First, I’m not saying lower your standards so that you have toxic, unhealthy, or just plain boring friendships. Second, relationship capital is like an ongoing foreign exchange system between two individuals. My calculation of disappointment in US Dollars looks different than your calculation of an accidental snide remark in Zimbawabwe RTGS Dollars.

Take 1 minute and think about what makes your best friendships work best and the hardest parts of each best friendship.

Take 30 seconds to look at the hard part of your friendship and judge if you can reduce your need and still have a healthy friendship.

If you can keep this idea of becoming less needy of things you don’t need in a friend and more “needy” of healthy friendship patterns—you will be relationally healthy in no time at all!