Do you think it is good to be dominant in the relationship?

I think it is impressive for a man to be dominant in a relationship. Not to put the woman down but that would show an outgoingness. A woman still needs to communicate her feelings and not be shy about what makes her happy and unhappy in the relationship.

In a relationship most of the man are the one who is dominant because he is the man of the family and make decisions. But these days the voice of the woman can also be part of the family too not like before late generations are like that. Now both couples are willing to make decisions and I believe also it is not good to a relationship that one is dominant with the other there must be a give a take relationship.

being dominant in a relationship is normal. but it should be alternate. there are times that I am dominant in our relationship. considering that i am a woman. i always tell what my husband should do that is because i think mature than my husband. but then again I see to it that my husbands feeling and ego would not be degraded. anyway our relationship will not last this long if he doesn't want what i do. actually he was the one who requested that i should be dominant i don't know why. LOL!

I think that everyone has different thoughts about what they like in their relationship, and if you're not the kind of person who likes to be dominated then that is okay and you should respect that. Personally, I like to be the one in charge and I am not entirely happy unless this is the case. My partner doesn't seem to mind, and I don't think that this is always a bad thing that he doesn't want to be the dominant one. As long as both partners are happy with the way that things are working out then I would say that everything would be okay and well balanced for the two of you.

Hi ajithlal: Hell no. It's not healthy to be dominant in a relationship. Actually I think that people who acts this way are not respecting their couple. They just use their partners as tools. When you are dominant you forget that the one you love needs an space and you could not tame him/her. ALVARO

Relationships (no matter what kind of) are seldom equal. There is always one who is the leader, has the ideas, plans and also carrying the responsibilies more as the other is. But this has nothing to do with being dominant in the way you mean it (btw there are also people who love to stay with a very dominant person and like to be a slave and ordered around but this is an agreement and there is respect). I don't think the dominant type you mention is good for a relationship since as you mention already there is no respect for the other person at all. People who are that dominant only care about themselves, have a low self esteem and their only way to be someone is to humilate others.

I think generally in most relationship's there is one person who is more dominant than the other person. I think that it can be balanced. A person can take the lead in the family arrangements and still be loving. It's when one person takes things to far and try to control everything that the other person does.So balance is key.