Personal Relationship Tips
What's the key to successful relationships? Here, we reveal the simple
things you need to know to deepen your partnership and make your relationship work.
Last Updated - 6th July 2006
- Without quality time, your relationship will not survive. Carve out at least half an hour a night, and at least on day a month when the two of you spend time exclusively together.
- Keep your dependence and independence in balance. Tell and show your partner how much you need him, but don't cling, as that can make your partner feel trapped.
- Encourage him to listen to you, by showing appreciation when he does. By the same token, show interest when he talks to yo. Be aware that most men aren't mentally programmed for conversation in the way woman are. They need more silence and internal time.
- Make him appreciate you. Don't wait for a spontaneous compliments, but say something good about yourself and ask for his agreement.
- Team him, preferably early in your relationship, exactly how to please you because it's unlikely he'll find out alone. If you don't yet know yourself, find out.
- Learn to do the one thing that is most likely to restore good feeling in your relationship - giving your partner a genuine, loving and approving smile.
- Offer those subtle quirks that first attracted you to your partner can, with time, turn around and become toe-curlingly annoying habits. Learn to love him, warts and all.
- Hidden resentments poison a relationship; so if something bothers you, say it. Remember that while men are wary of emotional conversations they love to find solutions. Express your problem to help you find the answer.
- Your spouse will not know what's on your mind unless you talk about it.
So talk about what's on your mind right now.
|