Maintaining a Long Term Relationship

Relationships is what makes us who we are today; the relationship with our parents, siblings and friends. We learn to respect, listen, adjust, become loyal and trust one another in order to keep the relationship going and the same thing applies to life partners. What makes a long-term relationship last; let us explore together and see if we practice these simple basic rules from which every couple can benefit? Commitment to the relationship is probably the base of every long term relationship; while it is recommended you keep your individuality it is also essential you start taking decisions thinking and considering how it will affect both of you because you are not alone but have someone's feelings and life to consider as well.

The Essentials of a Long Term Relationship

Respect your partner the way you want to be respected and you will see that he or she will treat you as you want to be treated; respect is probably even above love, as with time love may not be left as a skip of the heart, as you felt on the first date but respect will always remain the same or grow stronger, as your relationship. Long-term relationships last because of trust; you trust your partner to always tell the truth and you don't have to worry therefore where he or she is or what he or she is doing because you trust him or her to tell you the truth when you will ask.

The ability to communicate even when you don't communicate is what maintains long term relationships; you know when you are in the room reading a book and your partner is on the computer working away and as he or she passed by you, a simple caress or stoke can speak volumes. The comfortable silence is what long-term relationships have without feeling as if they have to speak to one another in order to maintain or show their feelings.

While comfortable silences are great, being able to talk to one another comfortably irrelevant of the subject or problem is yet another factor that maintains long term relationships.

What You Should Expect From Long Term Relationships

Expect to have differences, after all you are two different individuals but also expect to be able to have separate opinions and still see eye to eye; expect difficult days, a long term relationship is no bed of roses or if it were a bed of roses then expect an occasional thorn along the way. It is these differences and hardships that will in the end make a relationship even stronger, as you realize that nothing can make you love him or her less.