Keeping your Relationship Healthy

I believe that being honest with your partner, bonding and communication is a good key in having a healthy relationship. Spending some time with each other and doing activities that you both enjoy on any free time is a good idea from what I have heard. I am not married myself but being in a relationship with my gf I have to say that we spend time with each other, talk about how are day has been going and keeping the line of communication open as I have mentioned is key. When I talk to her about something going on in my life or something on my mind that is bothering me she is very open, listens to me and is understanding. I am also the same way that she is to me because I care about her and care what she has to say. These are all great things that can be done. Although, I would love to read the other posts as well and see what is being done to keep a relationship going strong after so many years. =)

Every relationship is different, as every person is different. What works for one, doesn't always work for the next. That being said when you find someone who you mesh with on "what works" this is usually a healthy relationship. I personally like to talk...alot. Therefore when I date I look for someone with similar attributes. If someone is a loner and keeps to themselves, 9 times out of 10, I would be setting up myself for failure if I pursued someone like this. So when thinking what's healthy and whats not, I guess I believe that it depends on the individuals in the relationship and what matters to them.

I think the things requires for keeping the relation healthy is dedication and devotion to the relation. Again faithfulness is also very important. Everybody what there partner to be faithful. I think giving space to each other and not interfering in everything is also important. For girls I think they love pampering and it is always better if the guy pamper the girl. I think talking freely also helps a lot. Because that's how you can show you are concern and care about the other person.

keeping a relationship healthy entails a lot of things and the first major way of keeping your relationship is to ensure constant good communication between yourself and your partner, without that the relationship will remain meaningless, there muist be an understand of each other's needs , strength and weaknesses

ya agreed by talking each other and huging each night we keep in touch and closer too!

To be honest I'm an absolute single, I'm unmarrid and have no girl friend yet. But I v'e still a good idea for keeping a long lasting healthy relationship.I v'e developed a very strong relation with all my family members and the key of this relation is "trust" and i bet that trust is the only thing that will keep a relation between two people for eternity. So let your partner develope a strong trust in you and then you don't need to justify any of your action to your partner.For creating an environment of trust one has to be very open to his/her partner never try to hide things from eachothers and be like open books and thus an environment of overwhelming trust willdevelope simultaneously........Trust the key to a healthy and long lasting relations....

hubby and i have been married for 21 years and we send each other an e card every working day to let each other know we are thinking about them. we also have a date night every friday (our kids are older so that helps).

That sounds like a great way to keep your relationship with each other strong, I know my husband and I have very little time together lately and I am always looking for things that I can do to help, sometimes I just want to kick him in the but because he just acts like a man so much some times but I have been with him for 7 years and I know he is truely my best friend.

I'll be getting married in September, for the 4th and final time, lol. And the important thing is we talk about everything, even if it doesn't really seem important. We tell each other 'I love you' as often as possible. And we both see being married as a partnership, we work as a team, and we both understand how important 'team' work is from our jobs. We also know how important it is to show and tell the other how important they are and what they mean to us. We understand that we don't know what tomorrow might bring, we both work in dangerous situations, he's a structural firefighter, and I'm a wildland firefighter. So if there is one thing we know, it's 'don't sweat the small stuff'

The Best Way to Keep A Relationship Healthy Is to Trust Each other, help and support each other And Most Importantly Stick together Through The Rough Times..... My Current mate Is So Amazing, He Has Done Alot to Make Me Happy, helped me In the most Difficult situations And shown Me The Meaning of True Love...... Despite The Age Gap and The Down turns we Had Our Relationship has Grown Stronger because Inside I Know It's What Makes us Know each Other Better And understand each other better, No Matter What.........

i really appreciate you have such a romantic and good relationship with your honey,both of you are good examples for every one on this site ,i GUESS WE should learn something from you .

it is really a good thing for partners to talk everything aside from doing things that we both like together like watching movies. it prevents the relationship from getting boring.. if there are times that we argue on things i just keep silent coz he will never stop justifying hisself..

My husband and I had been married for about a year now and we usually go out on weekends if there's a good movie or just to hang-out and dine outside. At most we spend our Saturdays at home, he sleeps in the afternoon while im on the computer, so he'll have enough rest and be ready for the evening love-making, lol... I don't usually encourage him to work overtime, coz we're both earning enough to support our needs, we don't have children yet, so everyday seems to be a honeymoon. I believe open-communication and taking time to spend with each other keeps any relationship alive and strong. When you trust each other and love each other tremendously, there are no bounds to knowing where it will lead.

To keep Relationship Healthy one both shud have respect for eachother. They should make comprimises.Sometimes the spats also strenthen the relationship after they realise.

Hi abkinsey, I really appreciate your discussions and this is certainly another good one. It is very important to keep a relationship healthy and the simple things are often the best. Despite the old adage 'never go to sleep angry', so many people do and many marriage breakups happen because the couples didn't tackle the problem in the beginning. Keep the lines of communication open should probable be added to the marriage vows. Blessings.

For me, we simply communicate each other though we're far apart and hangin' out on sundays enjoying the rest of the day,... during our working days we simply dropping by through sms in order to keep relationship healthy... and especially it won't be healthy if there are things that need to be cleared or to be understand if theres conflict between two parties. That should be settled right away, so as not letting your pride getting your way to destroy a healthy relationship... Just be patient, relax and be on-yourself with your love in life..

i think keeping your relationship healthy is very important it can be hard but atleast you do your best to have a stable healthy relationship. specially in marriage as its really hard to keep it good always as you have arguments and dont agree on something but its a committed relationship so be responsible enough to take care of it and make it stay healthy no matter what. happy mylotting.

in our situation, i used to buy him breakfast everyday so he would have something to eat before he take a bath for work. we keep on sending SMS to each other letting know where are we or what are we doing. he keeps on saying "i love you" "take care" in his SMS. but the most special that keeps our relationship healthy and stronger is our son. :) we are helping each other for our son's needs.