Prioritize Your Relationship

Prioritizing your relationship is one of the most important things you can do for your partner.  It builds the foundation of your relationship and gives makes it stronger. 

Some people have unrealistic views of their relationship, though.  Be careful not to fall into that trap. 

So many people spend their time trying to please their partner and they put them on a pedestal.  Everything they do and say is about their love relationship and they allow the connections with their family and friends fall away.  This is not healthy for you or for your partner. 

Prioritizing your relationship means to find the balance between who you are, who you want to be, and the life you want to live with the person you love. 

Your partner is a priority if you treat them with the respect they deserve.  To do that, you need to not only listen to them when they speak, but actually hear what they’re saying without interruption.  You need to respond to their conversations not react to their words.  You need to discuss their thoughts and ideas, not assume that you know what they’re thinking.  This is healthy communication and it’s important in any type of relationship, especially those you want to last long past the time of that conversation.

Treat your partner the way you want to be treated.  Love them unconditionally.  And remember, do not lose yourself in the process!