Relationships are fun and it’s great to have your best friend who is also your lover and partner in life by your side but don’t forget relationships take focus and love. Why is it important to know how to have a happy relationship?

If you don’t have fun and work on creating an amazing relationship, you could be lacking the foundational building blocks for long-term happiness and prosperity in your relationship.

1. Say “I Love You.”

First is self-love! One can only love you as much as your love yourself. Have respect and admiration for yourself and all the beauty inside you! Know you are valuable, worth every minute of life and the valuable time you choose to give others in your life is precious! Nurture yourself with all the beauty around you and connect with nature, it’s good for your health!

Saying “I love you” to the partner in your life, is at the foundation of a long lasting healthy relationship.

How often do you feel love but don’t say it? Love reassures the strength of the bond you and partner have, creating security and safety in between the two of you. Saying “I love you.” often is an amazing way on how to have a happy relationship and build that powerful connection.

2. Communication

A lack of communication is the root cause of most disagreements. Has a massive impact and at the base of how to have a happy relationship. Majority of disagreements are actually generally just a misunderstanding that happened during an attempt to communicate. Becoming an effective communicator is important.

Communication Tip 1:

State what’s bothering you right away. Make sure it’s peaceful and respectful. Don’t wait for it to boil up inside of you till you explode.

Communication Tip 2: 

Focus on having positive interactions and empowering each other. The psychologist did a study where they found that for happy long-lasting relationships, one must have 20 positive interactions to 1 negative. So have FUN and LAUGH often!

3. Health and Fitness

A strong attention to your health reflects self-love! Having the commitment and staying with your fitness is important!

What are you feeding your body? Are you burning off your nerves? Life does contain many stresses in it so burning off your stress is powerful. Focus on loving your body first and foremost!

Staying healthy together is a great way on tow to have a happy relationship long term and build attraction to one another!

4. Have FUN!

Woman are wired to handle emotions and sometimes can feel at a relief or more relaxed after a “conversation” with their boyfriends/husbands. Men actually have the opposite results, they are usually drained and need to recover. FUN works best on men.

Women: Sometimes even solving an issue in a light manner as a woman can benefit and reduce massive amounts of tension in a relationship. Focus on having more FUN make great memories and laugh more with the person you love.

Men: Understanding women think with more emotion will benefit your relationship in the long run. Sometimes letting her talking about what she needs to will have her soul dancing and issues will decrease in that department as she peals back the layers to her irritation.

It’s important for both men and women to set boundaries. Fun is hands down one of the best ways on how to have a happy relationship. If you don’t want to talk at the point in time.. just set another time to sit down and honor the other person.

5. MONEY!

As individuals, each should have their own money goals but them coming together as a couple and working as a team in life. A strong money focus as a team is a great way on how to have a happy relationship and build that long-term support for one another!

The lack of money is one of the greatest reasons for disagreements in a relationship. It’s important to be conscious of the other person when spending and includes them. Plan as a couple and respect each other.

Money Tip: Having financial goals together and focusing on meeting them may actually be very powerful for your relationship. Working together towards a goal as a unit is exciting and will build momentum for both of you in your lives.

6. Understanding Resistance

You know those love stories in the movies… like the Notebook? Those couples don’t have even one spec of resistance in their love.

“The opposite of resisting someone is to embrace them.”

Think about it.. the minute a disagreement comes about, what do you naturally do? Get defensive. It’s the automatic human response. A defensive response usually comes up as resistance. Resistance can come in many other forms and may come from a huge array of different fears in your mind and your partner’s mind.

Resistance tip: Start to classify it and become aware of your resistance and tell your partner when they show resistance. Work together to remove the resistance so you can both begin to embrace each other fully!

7. Life Long Growth

“If you don’t grow together, you don’t stay together. You actually grow apart.”

Growth is so important to you as an individual but it’s even more powerful as a team in a relationship. Two people grow faster and succeed more when they choose to grow as individuals for themselves and together as a unit in life.

Growth Tip 1:

Growth is not about how much the other person NEEDS to grow. It’s about you and where you are, to where you want to go. Who do you want to be? How do you want to treat others? How do you want to treat your partner?

Growth Tip 2:

Talk about your experiences and share your personal goals.

Explain where you feel you are and ask the other person to hold you accountable to grow to the next level.