Improving our relationship is an ongoing adventure because a sexy, exciting relationship requires playfulness, creativity, commitment, and an open heart.
As a wise man once said, you will never reach your full potential if you don’t open your heart.
Here are 7 ways to keep your relationship growing
1) Trust
Nothing hurts and breaks a relationship as quickly as dishonesty. When trust is lost, it motivates behaviors such as criticism, rejection, and jealousy.
Honesty and trust are the highest form of intimacy. If you tell a lie once then all your truths can become questionable. When you are honest, you produce honest actions and reactions.
2) Desire
Desire serves as the connection between love and sex.
The desire we feel for the other person is an indication of the liveliness and spontaneity in our lives and in our relationship.
Desire is to love what wood is for fire. Desire without love can result in a state of longing and neediness.
3) Love
Part of human love is mysterious, magical, free-flowing, and sometimes beyond our control.
Love is a word that covers a variety of feelings. It is an emotion. On one hand, it can be an absolute delight, while on the other hand, it can be pure kindness.
Love reveals our potential to see, feel, touch, and smell, that which we’ve never dreamed of.
How we experience love is a choice. It can come from nowhere and feel like that person was made specifically for us.
Loving one another means accepting each other exactly as they are. You know everything about the person and welcome it all. You have seen all their traits and still want to be a part of their life.
Mature love is more than just a warm feeling it’s a way of life – like creating a priceless work of art. It requires acceptance, patience, and, above all, daily practice.
4) Intimacy
One of the most important sentiments of human love is intimacy because it’s one of the most profound expressions of love, which means “in-to-me-see.”
Intimacy is being accepted and vulnerable. It doesn’t mean falling in love in the conventional sense of romantic infatuation but emerging in love by understanding what makes you and your partner expand and grow together.
5) Communication
Open, honest communication should be part of every healthy relationship.
Important conversations shouldn’t be put off, but neither should they be initiated during awkward or inappropriate times. Bringing up bedroom issues during a holiday party is not the best place to have such a discussion.
Deep conversations require deep listening. Being honest when you feel angry isn’t easy, but if what you’re saying isn’t true, then nothing real is being shared.
Going into a conversation with an agenda may lead to missed opportunities for connection and a deeper understanding of your partner and their reasons for approaching certain situations.
The more attached you are to the outcome, the more disappointed you’ll be.
6) Self-Awareness
Your most important view of reality is how you view your strengths, opinions, emotions, and appearance. Don’t abandon yourself.
Take responsibility for your actions and growth by prioritising your life’s physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects.
The way we define ourselves is a choice. A choice we make every moment.
You don’t allow others to define you when you know who you are.
When you neglect to take loving care of yourself — (by ignoring your own feelings and judging yourself), you end up feeling needy and insecure. This feeds the fear of losing your partner or losing yourself.
Fear closes the heart. Love opens it. Healthy self-love starts by learning to be present and mindful of your feelings — rather than continuing to avoid them.
7) Freedom
Being in a relationship requires connectedness and aloneness. It’s a great feeling when you can maintain your freedom and independence while remaining deeply connected to your partner.
A relationship rooted in fear-based emotions such as jealousy, anger, insecurity, anxiety and ownership can only create doubt, suspicion, and neediness.
Trust your partner by trusting yourself first. Be open and honest with your partner by being open and honest with yourself first.
Cultivating a healthy relationship is an ongoing adventure — requiring playfulness, creativity, and commitment.
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