10 Love Lessons for Stronger Relationships
You want your romance to blossom and your love to last. These 10 love lessons are a recipe for happiness for loving couples everywhere!
- To find true love, love yourself first. If you value and cherish yourself, you give yourself the greatest gift and will naturally attract others.
- Loving yourself may mean making hard choices, phasing out of your life overly critical or unkind people. If you only permit loving people into your personal bubble and make them your close companions, you will be surrounded by love.
- Love is an emotion that should translate into action. Treat it this way, always, and it will not grow dim or gutter out.
- Romance and love someone else the way you want to be romanced and loved. Kindness and consideration become like a garden in a relationship, where similar flowers grow together.
Courtesy: Mary K Baird - Always tell your partner specific things you like about him or her and don’t forget to say “I love you” every day. This may seem obvious but reinforcement strengthens relationships.
- Your thoughts, moods, behaviors and words contribute to the tenor of a relationship. Be vigilant that what you are contributing adds “rich content” instead of “toxic waste.”
- Care about your appearance. This is a gift you give your partner. You wouldn’t go on a first date unkempt and sloppy, so don’t adopt the habit, once you are in a relationship.
- Cultivate a love for living. If you enjoy each day and fill your life with interesting activities, you’ll be fun to be around-someone your partner wants to be with.
- Support your partner’s dreams, shore up his or her hopes, be a best friend, be someone to confide in . . . this “relationship cement” is one of the best things you can do to strengthen and build trust.
- The date never ends. Always treat your relationship like you are still dating and the excitement, love, and commitment will continue. Be a “good date” and you will make a great partner.
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Redburn
On August 15, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Useful content
Athlyn Green
On August 19, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hi Redburn,
Yes, I wish some of this was taught in high schools.
One of the biggest relationship killers is when one partner minimizes things that are important to the other person.
Rihana888
On August 6, 2009 at 7:37 am
Thank you for the article, I agree that it should be taught in schools, rather than the so-called “sex education,” which does not encourage relationships and how to maintain them
Athlyn Green
On August 25, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Hi Rihana,
Thank you for your insights. I agree, more should be done to teach love lessons for stronger relationships.
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