Comments on: A Healthy Relationships Checklist – Enhance the Love in Your Life http://www.newageselfhelp.com/happiness/a-healthy-relationships-checklist-enhance-the-love-in-your-life aaaaa Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aiping Wang http://www.newageselfhelp.com/happiness/a-healthy-relationships-checklist-enhance-the-love-in-your-life/comment-page-1#comment-11409 Aiping Wang Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:51:47 +0000 http://www.newageselfhelp.com/?p=861#comment-11409 Every relationship gets stale at some point unless you consistently treat it as new. Make sure you set some time aside from both of your schedules to get back to what made your relationship great in the first place. Things can get real serious when you are in a long relationship, but it started off fun and lighthearted. Get back to that initial magic on a regular basis. Every relationship gets stale at some point unless you consistently treat it as new. Make sure you set some time aside from both of your schedules to get back to what made your relationship great in the first place. Things can get real serious when you are in a long relationship, but it started off fun and lighthearted. Get back to that initial magic on a regular basis.
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]]> By: Diana Daffner, Intimacy Retreats http://www.newageselfhelp.com/happiness/a-healthy-relationships-checklist-enhance-the-love-in-your-life/comment-page-1#comment-3947 Diana Daffner, Intimacy Retreats Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:12:42 +0000 http://www.newageselfhelp.com/?p=861#comment-3947 Good list. Yes, what you focus your attention on grows. How true that is. Since my husband and I began enjoying sexual relations daily (yes, daily!), passion and joy have become our constant companions. Diana Daffner, Author, Tantric Sex for Busy Couples: How to Deepen Your Passion in Just Ten Minutes a Day Good list. Yes, what you focus your attention on grows. How true that is. Since my husband and I began enjoying sexual relations daily (yes, daily!), passion and joy have become our constant companions.

Diana Daffner,
Author, Tantric Sex for Busy Couples: How to Deepen Your Passion in Just Ten Minutes a Day

]]> By: George Polley http://www.newageselfhelp.com/happiness/a-healthy-relationships-checklist-enhance-the-love-in-your-life/comment-page-1#comment-3943 George Polley Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:08:30 +0000 http://www.newageselfhelp.com/?p=861#comment-3943 I think you have some good things here. As a retired clinical social worker and relationship coach, I'd refer people here. Here are a couple of good quotes from one of my favorite resources, Michael P. Nichols, author of "The Lost Art of Listening": "Most people won't really listen or pay attention to your point of view until they become convinced that you've heard and appreciated theirs." And: "Being listened to spells the difference between feeling accepted and feeling isolated." Both are things that marriage partners (and other partners) tend to miss, then expect the other person to make the first move. My point of view is that if I want to have a better relationship with my partner, and be listened to, it's my job to make the first move by listening to what she has to say without interrupting, objecting or correcting her. My job is to listen in order to heard and understand. Once my partner feels heard and understood, she or he is much more willing to listen to me. If I don't or won't take that first step, I can pretty much forget about improvements. If my partner refuses to listen and insists on being listened TO, and refuses to change that, well, there's not much chance of seeing any improvement, and the relationship only gets worse. George Polley Sapporo, Japan I think you have some good things here. As a retired clinical social worker and relationship coach, I’d refer people here. Here are a couple of good quotes from one of my favorite resources, Michael P. Nichols, author of “The Lost Art of Listening”: “Most people won’t really listen or pay attention to your point of view until they become convinced that you’ve heard and appreciated theirs.” And: “Being listened to spells the difference between feeling accepted and feeling isolated.”

Both are things that marriage partners (and other partners) tend to miss, then expect the other person to make the first move. My point of view is that if I want to have a better relationship with my partner, and be listened to, it’s my job to make the first move by listening to what she has to say without interrupting, objecting or correcting her. My job is to listen in order to heard and understand. Once my partner feels heard and understood, she or he is much more willing to listen to me. If I don’t or won’t take that first step, I can pretty much forget about improvements. If my partner refuses to listen and insists on being listened TO, and refuses to change that, well, there’s not much chance of seeing any improvement, and the relationship only gets worse.

George Polley
Sapporo, Japan

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