A healthy relationship is something you cultivate. They showed us how love does not waltz away with the currents of emotion. This month, the Institute I work for invited all employees to a 25-year-old marriage celebration. We enjoyed the delicious food but those of us who attended the dinner party got something more valuable. Insights …
Tag: Love Lessons
Love Is Not Possessive
Healthy love wants your loved one to be happy, even if that happiness is with someone else. He ran away from me like he was escaping from a prison cell. We were in our 20’s and our love was epic. I loved him. He said he loved me. That meant he belonged to me. Earth …
9 Red Flags In Relationships
Nobody can bulletproof a relationship. 1. Casually thrown hurtful words Words are like bullets. Once you pull the trigger, you can’t take them back. You can express remorse or say you are sorry, but that is not the same. We all make mistakes. We say hurtful things to the ones we love the most. But …
This Is How You Plant Your Feet And Stand Rooted In Your Relationship
Building your relationship is a lot more important than having one. A colleague of mine, after one year marriage, told me she is getting a divorce. “Huh? What happened?” I asked. I was expecting monumental reasons like maybe he has cheated or she has or something serious enough to break their marriage. “We have grown …
How Lasting Love Looks Like
Lasting love allows you to get rid of the mask. A rock was weighing on my soul for the past few days. No light and a twinkle in my eyes. All because a colleague stole my idea and presented it to my boss. I curled up like a fetus and sobbed uncontrollably. My partner drew me …
Open Your Heart Until You Hear It Crack ( Love Lessons)
Love is the biggest risk you can ever take, but like all the most dangerous ventures, it comes with the biggest payout. “I love you,” he tells me after he tightly clenches the toy I gave him to his chest. After a long day at work, I have taken a taxi to take me to an …
Keep Building Your Relationship Boat So That It Doesn’t Get Blown Away To Smithereens (Love Lessons)
Good relationships are consciously designed. “Forever” is built on a million little “now’s” Relationships are built when you value what it is rather than what you imagine it to be. There is love in your silly attempts to make things better when all you imagine and wish for is grasslands and green pastures. You work on …
Give Your Loved Ones One Of The Greatest Gifts Of All: The Gift Of Your Attention And Presence (Building Love)
Grant your loved ones the gift of feeling understood. When I feel overcome by the urge to be inside my head and remain there when I am with loved ones, I remind myself of these things: Put your urge to speak aside to listen carefully, consciously. You can ogle your loved one to your heart’s …
Relationships Are Specifically Designed To Teach You How To Hold Something Precious With Open Palms
Rather than trying to hold it captive. Love is not supposed to hurt If it hurts, something somewhere is off and needs to be reconsidered. When you are in love with someone, everything that you see is colored by that love –including your relationship with that person. If your love is hurting you, something is wrong. If …
Your Loved Ones Are Not A Ribbon On Top Of A Package
They are the package. You have to knock the door And enter. Everybody that you love deserves your deliberate focus and attention. If you and your significant other are living in the same house but going through two completely different experiences, then you must make a deliberate effort to enter into their world. I mean, how will …