Create a mature, loving relationship by using the ideas in Being Happy Together: How to Have a Fabulous Relationship With Your Life Partner in Less Than an Hour a Week. Loving relationships do not just happen. Creating them is a rewarding and worthwhile challenge.
In a mature loving relationship, you can easily discuss values, solve problems, have fun together and nurture and support each other. You and your partner empower each other and the relationship becomes powerful, exciting, playful, nurturing and creative. You feel excited, safe and loved.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it:
Each of you separately list times when you have discussed values, solved problems together, had fun together, and nurtured or supported each other. Compare your lists. If you had trouble coming up with examples in any area, discuss ways in which you might try some new things together to fill up the empty category.
This is an excerpt from Being Happy Together: How to Have a Fabulous Relationship With Your Life Partner in Less Than an Hour a Week, by Laurie Weiss, Ph.D.
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written by Laurie Weiss
Go to obedience school training with your dog. You have to learn to communicate clearly about boundaries when you work with animals.
This obviously isn’t for everybody, but it’s surprising how effective it is. When someone is giving you feedback about the messages you are sending to your dog, you often learn a great deal about your general communications style. When you do this together, learning to provide consistent messages to your dog, you tend to see your own patterns of inconsistencies and learn to correct them.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it:
Spend some time researching obedience school training classes. Your veterinarian, a local pet store and friends are all good resources.
This is an excerpt from Being Happy Together: How to Have a Fabulous Relationship With Your Life Partner in Less Than an Hour a Week, by Laurie Weiss, Ph.D.
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written by Laurie Weiss
Schedule time to play together. Keep a list of activities you each consider fun. Take turns choosing an item from the list, and do it.
When you aren’t used to playing, it’s sometimes hard to figure out what you want to do when you have time to do it. Take time to make this list before you are ready to use it. Include activities that each one of you enjoys separately, activities you think you might enjoy, and activities you have enjoyed together in the past.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it:
Take the time to make your list. Start by making separate lists, and then brainstorm together about other items you could add to the list. Don’t worry about cost or feasibility. Having outrageous items on your list creates interesting possibilities.
This is an excerpt from Being Happy Together: How to Have a Fabulous Relationship With Your Life Partner in Less Than an Hour a Week, by Laurie Weiss, Ph.D.
Technorati Tags: Relationship Advice, Play, Togetherness, Relationships
written by Laurie Weiss
