user19697: Upasaka Karl mentioned in an answer:

Relationships have a beginning. And because they have a beginning, they also have an end. Thoughtless endings, ghosting and worse, hurt both parties. It is sad to treat each other like an Amazon shopping experience. We become each other's dismissable clickbait. Yet perhaps a thoughtless ending was matched by a thoughtless beginning. Perhaps we can consider and nurture relationships that matter.


Isn't it merely the case that personal relationships never really end, that some of the debts remain forever? That one actually stays bonded forever, even after ending of a relationship...

What are the valid reasons for ending a personal relationship?

How to end a relationship properly?

Which (as it were) "relationship" can't be ended, once gotten into?

What's the effect of denying being in a personal relationship and consuming outside of it, thinking "I am free" or "this is my right"?


[Note that this isn't given for stacks, exchange, other worldbinding trades and relation-misuse but to escape toward]

user13709: Conventionally, relationships are clinging aggregates that bring delight and suffering. One chases beauty and finds skeletons after a time.
Setting aside the clinging, relationships are just aggregates. They are named forms. For example, "father and mother" are relationships, named aggregates, for all posting here.
For those who go forth, the relationship with mother and father changes. One must with respect and gratitude request parent's permission before going forth. One asks permission to end the relationship with home and start a relationship with homelessness.

MN82:6.8: “Raṭṭhapāla, Buddhas don’t give the going forth to the child of parents who haven’t given their permission.”

In contrast, denying a relationship leads to lies and stealing.

AN3.70:3.11: “I don’t belong to anyone anywhere! And nothing belongs to me anywhere!”’...


AN3.70:3.25: This, I say, is lying.  When the night has passed they use their possessions once more, though they’ve not been given back to them. This, I say, is stealing.

There are also special relationships. For example, the Four Noble Truths have a relationship with one another. As far as I know, that relationship is permanent, but that's beyond me.
And finally, with the ending of wishes, one disappears into a "permanent relationship" with emptiness.

MN121:13.1: Whatever ascetics and brahmins enter and remain in the pure, ultimate, supreme emptiness—whether in the past, future, or present—all of them enter and remain in this same pure, ultimate, supreme emptiness.  So, Ānanda, you should train like this: ‘We will enter and remain in the pure, ultimate, supreme emptiness.’


user8157: The suttas appear to teach relationships based on right moral view are permanent:

....young householder, should a wife as the West be
ministered to by a husband: (iii) by being faithful to her. The wife
thus ministered to as the West by her husband shows her compassion to
her husband...: (iii) she is faithful... DN 31
If both husband & wife want to see one another not only in the present
life but also in the life to come, they should be in tune [with each
other] in conviction, in tune in virtue, in tune in generosity, and in
tune in discernment. AN 4.55
Admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie
is actually the whole of the holy life. SN 45.2


user43: Personal ("sexual") relationship is a fiction, a hallucination. To paraphrase my Zen master, what worldly people call "love" is an obsession, a disease of the mind. Ownership of people is slavery and so is the owning relationships between people.
As said in the prophecy of Maitreya in the Maitreyavyākaraṇa:

[Gods, people, and other sentient beings] will lose their doubts, and the torrents of their cravings will be cut off: free from all misery they will manage to cross the ocean of becoming; and, as a result of Maitreya's teachings, they will lead a holy life. No longer will they regard anything as their own, they will have no possession, no gold or silver, no home, no relatives! But they will lead the holy life of oneness under Maitreya's guidance.


19697: <p>Upasaka Karl <a href="https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/41486/19697">mentioned in an answer</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Relationships have a beginning. And because they have a beginning, they also have an end. Thoughtless endings, ghosting and worse, hurt both parties. It is sad to treat each other like an Amazon shopping experience. We become each other's dismissable clickbait. Yet perhaps a thoughtless ending was matched by a thoughtless beginning. Perhaps we can consider and nurture relationships that matter.</p>
</blockquote>
<ol>
<li><p>Isn't it merely the case that personal relationships never really end, that some of the debts remain forever? That one actually stays bonded forever, even after ending of a relationship...</p>
</li>
<li><p>What are the valid reasons for ending a personal relationship?</p>
</li>
<li><p>How to end a relationship properly?</p>
</li>
<li><p>Which (as it were) &quot;relationship&quot; can't be ended, once gotten into?</p>
</li>
<li><p>What's the effect of denying being in a personal relationship and consuming outside of it, thinking &quot;I am free&quot; or &quot;this is my right&quot;?</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><em>[Note that this isn't given for stacks, exchange, other worldbinding trades and relation-misuse but to escape toward]</em></p>
 13709: <p>Conventionally, relationships are clinging aggregates that bring delight and suffering. One chases beauty and finds skeletons after a time.</p>
<p>Setting aside the clinging, relationships are just aggregates. They are named forms. For example, &quot;father and mother&quot; are relationships, named aggregates, for all posting here.</p>
<p>For those who go forth, the relationship with mother and father changes. One must with respect and gratitude request parent's permission before going forth. One asks permission to end the relationship with home and start a relationship with homelessness.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/mn82/en/sujato#mn82:6.8" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN82:6.8</a>: “Raṭṭhapāla, Buddhas don’t give the going forth to the child of parents who haven’t given their permission.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p>In contrast, denying a relationship leads to lies and stealing.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/an3.70/en/sujato#an3.70:3.11" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AN3.70:3.11</a>: “I don’t belong to anyone anywhere! And nothing belongs to me anywhere!”’...</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/an3.70/en/sujato#an3.70:3.25" rel="nofollow noreferrer">AN3.70:3.25</a>: This, I say, is lying.  When the night has passed they use their possessions once more, though they’ve not been given back to them. This, I say, is stealing.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>There are also special relationships. For example, the Four Noble Truths have a relationship with one another. As far as I know, that relationship is permanent, but that's beyond me.</p>
<p>And finally, with the ending of wishes, one disappears into a &quot;permanent relationship&quot; with emptiness.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="https://suttacentral.net/mn121/en/sujato#mn121:13.1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MN121:13.1</a>: Whatever ascetics and brahmins enter and remain in the pure, ultimate, supreme emptiness—whether in the past, future, or present—all of them enter and remain in this same pure, ultimate, supreme emptiness.  So, Ānanda, you should train like this: ‘We will enter and remain in the pure, ultimate, supreme emptiness.’</p>
</blockquote>
 8157: <p>The suttas appear to teach relationships based on right moral view are permanent:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>....young householder, should a wife as the West be
ministered to by a husband: (iii) by being faithful to her. The wife
thus ministered to as the West by her husband shows her compassion to
her husband...: (iii) she is faithful... DN 31</em></p>
<p><em>If both husband &amp; wife want to see one another not only in the present
life but also in the life to come, they should be in tune [with each
other] in conviction, in tune in virtue, in tune in generosity, and in
tune in discernment. AN 4.55</em></p>
<p><em>Admirable friendship, admirable companionship, admirable camaraderie
is actually the whole of the holy life. SN 45.2</em></p>
</blockquote>
 43: <p>Personal (&quot;sexual&quot;) relationship is a fiction, a hallucination. To paraphrase my Zen master, what worldly people call &quot;love&quot; is an obsession, a disease of the mind. Ownership of people is slavery and so is the owning relationships between people.</p>
<p>As said in the prophecy of Maitreya in the Maitreyavyākaraṇa:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[Gods, people, and other sentient beings] will lose their doubts, and the torrents of their cravings will be cut off: free from all misery they will manage to cross the ocean of becoming; and, as a result of Maitreya's teachings, they will lead a holy life. No longer will they regard <strong>anything as their own, they will have no possession, no gold or silver, no home, no relatives</strong>! But they will lead the holy life of oneness under Maitreya's guidance.</p>
</blockquote>
