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Long term relationship advice.
When you are in the initial stages of dating, you are eager to impress one another and you do whatever it takes to make it work. But as you get into a relationship and settle into it, you start taking each other for granted or get lazy. Sometimes, a kind of apathy sets in. This is never good for a relationship. In order for a relationship to grow, the couple involved has to grow with it.
If you are in a long-term relationship and you feel it?s stagnating, take a long, hard look at it. And just to help you along the way, here is some advice ? ten tips to strengthen your long-term relationship.It is important to accept your partner with all his strengths and weaknesses, faults and failings. If you start trying to gradually change your partner to suit your requirements or your ideal, it will begin to affect the relationship.
Trust is as basic to a relationship as food is to survive. If you are constantly hiding things from one another or holding back, it doesn?t bode well for a relationship. If one or both of you have insecurities ? jealousy, possessiveness, etc.You have to keep the lines of communication open in a relationship, for it to work out in the long run. Whether it is about finances, kids, career plans, short-term or
long-term goals or even your day?s activities, talk about it. And listen to what your partner has to say.
Long-term relationships go through their fair share of disagreements. For the relationship to stay healthy, it is vital that couples learn to resolve conflict quickly and effectively. Dragging on conflicts or staying at loggerheads with each other are barriers to keeping the relationship happy.A long-term relationship benefits from a sharing of responsibilities, decision-making and authority. If one person is in charge all the time, the other partner can begin to resent it. Consulting one another and making decisions jointly gives both partners a sense of satisfaction and a feeling of being an important part of the relationship.
Re: Long term relationship advice.
**6.30.12** I have found the one whom my soul loves.