10 ingredients for a long lasting relationship.
- Love - Love is what keeps you going, it comforts you in the roughest times. Even when it gets rough, your partners love will comfort you.
- Romance - Romance adds the butterflies in the stomach, it makes you smile, it brings you back to that first date feeling.
- Respect - If two people don’t respect each other, co-existence is near impossible. You have to respect each other, in order to love each other.
- Passion - Having passion in a relationship is like having sex without the intercourse. Without, there would be touch, but no feeling.
- Empathy - Empathy is very important in a relationship. Lack of empathy would render the relationship an non understanding one.
- Understanding - It is important to be able to understand each other. It is through understanding that a connection develops, and respect and love can be discovered.
- Acceptance - If you are in a relationship with a person, you need to accept him/her for what he/she is.
- Friendship - Basically, in a relationship, you need to be able to laugh at each other, cry with each other and yell at each other. Who better to do that than a best friend?
- Commitment - You need to be committed to each other, and you need to be in it for the long run. Staying focused on each other will let you last longer.
- Honesty - Honesty will help to build the right amount of trust in a relationship and couples can learn to value each other’s opinions and beliefs.
(via subzerofangire)
