10 Easy Little Tips to Improve Your Relationship TODAY!

And I’m going to try to do that with even the strangers I meet along my path of life … starting today!
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could improve all of our relationships?  Yours, mine and ours … right here and right now – starting today!  Because do you know what?  A good relationship just makes our life better all the way around.

To decide to have a good relationship is kind of like making a good investment.  The more you put into it – the more you can hope to get out of it.

Ellen Kreidman wrote the books “Light His Fire” and “Light Her Fire” and she offers great advice for anyone wanting to rekindle their relationship … If we want to see change in anything (our own relationships or even in the world) – We have to start with ourselves and work out and just – Be the change!

I have all the old relationship books from my day – when building and keeping a good relationship was the most important thing in the world to us. And it still is to me and Geezer … and I work at our relationship daily.  And I say “I” work at it because men don’t understand.  They think you both had it good 50 years ago and so it’s just bound to continue.  But no … that doesn’t happen.  It is so easy to fall into a rut and get to where you hardly communicate.  So you just have to work at a relationship if you want to keep it alive and fun and we sure do that in Round Knob Canyon.  By keeping our relationship alive and fun through all these 5 decades, we’ve also kept that very close bond.

Geezer and I were just comparing 2 couples last night and I was saying how interesting and sometimes sad it is to watch couples out in public.  You can literally tell, usually … which ones are really connected in an intimate and emotional way and which ones are not.  And when I say intimate I mean intimate bond in the brain … not otherwise.

I think it was Ellen Kreidman who said “A man falls in love with a woman because of the way he feels when he’s with her”  But don’t you think that would work in any and all relationships?

We are pulled to people that are fun and uplifting and easy to talk to.  Because they make us feel good about our connection with them.  And we push away from people that are dull and negative and hateful.  Because they pull us down.  And who wants  or needs that in their life?

So what makes a relationship grow stronger and healthier?
What makes a couple stay or become more connected?
What kills a relationship?

If you want a strong and healthy relationship with your spouse you must do several things!

You must…

1. take time – to look them in the eyes and really listen to their thoughts and ideas when they’re talking to you …
2. be involved in each others lives …
3. communicate …
4. spend plenty of quality time together …
5. laugh and play daily …
6. re-connect … and this is so crucial.  Have you ever seen a toaster or iron or clothes dryer that worked without a connection to the electricity?  Relationships are the same way – if there is no electricity between a couple – there’s not going to be much else, either.  POOF – good relationship switch turns off. But you CAN keep at least a spark – even through the years!   And it only takes a spark to get a fire a going!  Did you know that?  But you still have to remember  to work at your relationship daily.
7. give of ourselves without wondering what’s in it for you …
8. put past hurts behind you and start today to re-build what you once had.
9. Be the friend you want to have!
10. Be the spouse you want to have! Often one person can transform a relationship! Because all you have to do is … BE CONSISTENT AND BE THE CHANGE!

Geezer and I have just celebrated our 48th anniversary.  We dated and were inseparable for 3 years before that. But no, there was no big to do – because we’re not big ‘to do’ people.  Geezer and I went to Cracker Barrel – just about my very favorite place to go out to eat.  And I had bought a couple of DVD’s of squeaky clean stand up comedians that just make you laugh until you can’t get your breath.
(Steve Harvey and Jim Gaffigan)  and that was our big exciting evening.  AND it was HEAVENLY!  But I work at keeping that spark alive.  I have literally made myself ‘irreplaceable’  🙂  And you can do that TOO!!!  YES YOU CAN!!!

But now, you can’t be irreplaceable if you don’t put forth the effort to make yourself irreplaceable.   I truly believe it’s the wife/mom that sets the mood for the whole family and can make or break a whole household. I TRULY believe that!

Let’s all start TODAY to make just a few small changes and do just a few small things to make our home life tonight extra special.  And then let’s repeat that tomorrow and the next day and the next!   I ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE YOU … even if you are married to a rattlesnake … within no time … you’ll see that rattler slither away and a little friendly green snake appear … lol

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