10 Tips On How To Have a Healthy Relationship
We all desire a healthy, beautiful relationship, but do we all have one? Here are my top advice for having a strong, healthy relationship as a therapist with over a decade of experience dealing with couples. The secret to success is to be communicative and proactive. 1. Recreate the activities you did during your first year of dating. We tend to slink into our proverbial sweatpants and get lethargic in our relationships as the months and years pass. We lose our tolerance, tenderness, thoughtfulness, understanding, and overall effort for our companion. Consider going back to your first year of dating and writing down everything you used to do for your partner. Start doing them all over again. 2. Request what you want. We gradually come to believe that our spouse understands us so well that we don’t need to ask for what we want. What happens when this assumption is made? Expectations are formed, and then rapidly deflated. Unmet expectations might cause us to doubt the viability of our partnership and connection. Remember that “asking for what you want” includes […]