In general terms, the word functioning refers to the execution of the proper function displayed by a person or, failing that, a machine, in order to carry out a task, activity or work, in a satisfactory manner.
Functioning is basically a process that is carried out or put into practice in something, in an area such as work, for example, so that it deploys the tasks for which it was designed and thought and that then the person who uses or uses it puts into practice, it reports what is known as functionality, which is, broadly speaking, that it serves you and that rewards the person who uses the operation in question, benefits or earnings for the fact of using it, which can be materialized in a device or in a sophisticated invention.
For example, the washing machine or the automatic washing machine that we use frequently in our daily lives to wash our clothes has a complex internal function, made up of various coupled materials that are what will allow it to carry out its main function, which is to wash clothes efficiently. satisfactory and result through its operation, functional to the needs of its users or consumers.
Now, the concept of operation, as we already pointed out at the beginning of the review, we can not only apply it in relation to a machine, but we also usually apply it to individuals, when we execute our own functions and that then generate the operation of what is done or must be carried out correctly.
As it happens with a machine or with a person, when the operation in question does not meet the proposed objectives, it will be called a malfunction. In the specific case of the machine, it is surely due to a technical defect or failure that could eventually be corrected by changing the failing part.
While in the case of people, when something does not work, it is because the specific functions or roles that that person has to fulfill in the corresponding context, relationship or job, do not turn out to be compliant or as expected, generating a malfunction. therefore.
A relationship with a couple, for example, works because there are two parties involved, and each one of them is responsible for the deployment of a role and certain functions within that relationship. When one of the two parties fails to satisfactorily fulfill their role and functions, then the couple will inevitably enter into a crisis due to this malfunction.
Meanwhile, if they do not manage to reverse the situation, it will be likely that they decide to separate, put an end to the relationship that unites them.
Normally, and before taking the resounding step of separation, the couple tries to resolve through talk, dialogue and sometimes therapy, those issues that do not work properly in the relationship. If the couple manages to recover the satisfactory fulfillment of the functions assigned to each one, they will surely continue with their union, but if they do not succeed, despite the effort, they will decide to separate.
The concept of functioning is really broad in its application, since almost everything in life demands a functioning, couples, machines, a car, etc. Some will have a rather complex and technical operation and others more simple, and others that directly have nothing to do with the technical.
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