A relationship is a close friendship between two people, especially one involving romantic feelings.
Relationship can be used in two other ways. It can describe two things and the way in which they are connected.
It can also describe close ties between people or groups of people and the way they feel and behave towards each other.
Relation also describes the link between people, groups or countries and the way they behave towards each other. In this sense there is very little difference between relations and relationship.
Most of the differences are context specific in this sense. For example, we talk about diplomatic relations and race relations, not diplomatic relationships or race relationships.
Your relations are also members of your family. Your blood relations are the people who are related to you by birth, not through marriage. If you say that they are your own flesh and blood, you are emphasizing that they are members of your own family.
Examples and more information available at source article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv235.shtml
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