Love is like having a cap on your own happiness, because you can only be as happy as the person you’re in love with. Daniel Radcliffe, actor.
Think about your relationship and how your mood (or your partner’s) impacts it. If you’re like most of us, you both are highly susceptible to how the other is feeling at any given moment.This is because all relationships are reciprocal. How you feel in your relationship is a function of your partner’s actions and your actions influence how they feel as well. This is a key concept if you want to put your relationship on a strong footing.
One challenge to marriage is when one of you is content with the way things are going but the other wants something to be different. If you are the satisfied partner, you may not understand, or even recognize, what the problem is but you probably feel your partner’s discontent. If you are the unhappy partner, you may have made attempts to get things to be better for you. You may have stopped trying if you are unable to see any improvement. Unfortunately, your level of happiness in the relationship will remain low.
Like a chain whose strength is determined by the weakest link, a relationship is only as strong as its least happy member. If one of you is unhappy, the relationship cannot be happy either. If you address the discontent, and make the necessary adjustments to resolve it, you and your partner will experience the true love a good relationship can bring.
Fearless Marriage Activities to Keep Love Alive:
Day One: Assess your level of happiness in your marriage.
Day Two: Make a specific request for change from your partner.
Day Three: Tell your partner one thing they can do to start the change.
Day Four: Really listen to a request for change your spouse is making.
Day Five: Identify one thing you can do to make that change and try it.
Day Six: Lift up your partner’s mood by being positive.
Day Seven: Reassess your sense of happiness. Repeat steps as needed.
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- How to Use Your Power to Make Your Marriage Great
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- How to Put ‘Happy’ and ‘Marriage’ Together in Your Life
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