"Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world,but anger give a precise,detached perception of its own." ----Scott Spencer, Endless Love
Is our love Endless Love?
Here are 12 signs of a healthy relationship that has a good chance of lasting:
1. Mutual attraction:
- You feel excited, warm, loving or happy at the thought of seeing each other.
- You love spending time together. It's often magical.
- There is active mutual appreciation which is frequently communicated -- you don't take each other for granted.
2. Excellent communication:
- Everything can be discussed honestly, respectfully and rationally, without confusion, blame games or subtle mind games.
- No subject is taboo.
- You don't so much have arguments as misunderstandings that can be cleared up through discussion.
- Negotiation instead of compromise means that there's a better chance of both partners getting what they want and need.
3. You share similar values, such as:
- The way you treat other people, and also yourself.
- Values around fidelity and commitment to the relationship.
- Your priorities in life.
4. You have similar level of awareness. You are each insightful and perceptive about what may run beneath your own and the other's behavior, and you address differences as needed.
5. You have similar levels of accountability and responsibility.
- You are independent of each other as well as interdependent.
- You don't blame the other for making you feel the way you feel. You are responsible for how you feel, how you react and how you respond.
- You are responsible for our own messes and for rectifying them.
6. You are best friends as well as lovers and parental partners.
- When you are too tired or stressed with family or work commitments to feel that 'in love' feeling, you can still consider and respect the other's basic needs and rights in a reciprocal way.
- On the basis of liking each other, you can easily create that 'in love' feeling, at will.
7. You trust each other.
- Fidelity is important. What you are trusting is our own and our partner's commitment to the relationship. You are both transparent in what we do.
- You need to know if you can trust them about other things too: Are they reliable? If they say they'll do something, do they do it, and at the time they said they would? Do they say what they mean and mean what they say? This means if they say they're fine about something, they really are, or they'd say otherwise.
8. Equality of sharing, giving and taking.
- This refers to autonomy. Autonomous individuals determine their own needs and take responsibility to supply themselves with what they need.
- Each of you can receive without feeling you've lost status somehow and you support each other when needed.
- Interactions are adult on both sides.
9. Sex is exciting, warm, tender and reciprocal. It's also flexible in times of stress, responsibilities for children, illness and fatigue.
10. You find each other interesting, funny and fun.
11. You're going in the same direction. This means similar or combined goals or priorities.
12. Your own opinion of you is more important than anyone else's, although feedback is welcome and carefully considered.
- This means you don't need each other for reassurance, self-fulfillment or direction.
- It means you can self-soothe if you're upset and don't place unreasonable demands on our partner to rescue or nurture us.
There are no guarantees for any relationship. You can't know for sure that it will last a lifetime because we're not static beings, but living, growing individuals.
If you -- and your partner - can consciously create yourselves as authentic and responsible, there's a good chance you can also create a love that will last a lifetime. Presenting your dearest darlings with Love Only You promise ring by committing yourself in a lifetime relationship.
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