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1. KNOW YOURSELF
Recognizing and understanding our limitations enables us to work on them and find partners who will complement us.
This can be tricky because our strengths and weaknesses are often one and the same.
2. LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND
You have to accept the fact that your partner had a life before you. There are things they did, and decisions made they thought were right at that moment, Just as you in the past.
3. YOUR PARTNER IS A DIFFERENT GENDER
The earlier you appreciate the fact that your partner is always a different gender, the easier your relationship would go. Being conscious of this fact will enable you employ appropriate approaches in your dealings with your partner.
4. RELATIONSHIP IS FUN
Do not allow yourself to be told otherwise. It is true that there are good numbers of bad relationships out there. Do not be carried away from the fact that the good ones are greater in number. The bad ones are always louder.
5. LOVE ALONE DOES NOT MAKE RELATIONSHIP WORK
Love is not just a mere feeling. It is an action word. Although this is not always the case, when you love someone you will do almost anything and every other thing to show it.
6. THERE IS NO PERFECT PARTNER
Before anything else, there should already exist a reasonable degree of compatibility between the partners. This could be by way of having common interest, standards of exposure, like principles, natural acceptance, etc
7. YOU AND YOUR PARTNER ARE DIFFERENT
Understand and appreciate the fact that your partner isn’t the same as you. There can never exist smooth equality of exposure, interest and standards. Reasoning, understanding and perception can never be the same.
8. FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE IS A NECESSITY
If you are not financially independent, you will most likely have a hard time in your relationship. Financial independence is not having a lot of money; it is about having a viable means of income.
9. LOVE IS SACRIFICE
Sacrifice is an integral element of a smooth relationship. When you love someone, you’ll do almost anything. Some personal adjustments must be made.
You will have to adjust your principles in order to incorporate your partner.
10. LEARN ACCEPTANCE
Some relationship falling apart after a certain point of time is that people feel their respective partners have changed. The actual thing is your perception of the other person has changed. What you once accepted is what you don’t like now.
11. KNOW HOW TO BE COMPASSIONATE
The ability to recognize suffering and offer compassion is vital to a mutually supportive relationship.
We all have our own story of hardship, mistrust, and loss, as well as joy, love, and triumph. By listening with an open heart and mind. love.