Trust and Respect - Certainly Your Two Key Ingredients to a Healthy Relationship
Obviously,
we all know that trust and respect are important aspects of a
relationship, but did you know they may be the most important
ingredients to a healthy, long lasting love life?
It's true, and you can't have trust without respect or respect without trust.
Why is this? It's simple.
Ask
yourself if you can trust someone that you don't respect? No. If you
don't respect the decisions, intelligence, relationships and career of
the person you love, how can you trust them to have your best interests
in mind? How can you expect them to know what would be best for you?
Likewise, if you don't trust your mate, how in the world can you respect him or her? Trust breeds respect.
Certainly,
it is critical to understand this important concept because you need to
know if your relationship is worth fighting for. You also need to be
able to determine if your loved one will consider you worth fighting for
as well.
Does he respect you? Does he trust you? If not,
eventually he will figure this out and realize that the relationship is
not bringing out the best in either one of you.
So, how do you determine if your relationship has the love and respect it needs to not only survive, but to flourish?
First,
you do a self inventory and determine if you are living up to your full
potential. Are you honest with your mate about where you go and how you
spend your money? Do you tell the truth about your feelings and fears?
Have you hidden things from him that you fear will make him leave the
relationship, possibly past mistakes you have made or relationships
you've been in?
Resolutely, if you find areas in which you have
not been completely forthright, come clean with your mate and let him
know you were just scared to show him all your flaws but you now want to
be altogether honest and transparent.
After doing this
self-inventory, determine for yourself the areas in which you need
improvement. Make yourself an honest, trustworthy person that is worth
fighting for, and then determine whether or not your significant other
has a genuine, honest and authentic character that you want to share
your life with.
It has been said that honesty is the number one most important determinant of a successful, long lasting relationship, and I believe this is true.
If you are both credible, dependable people, the mutual respect for each
other will easily follow. Learn to show this respect for yourself and
your lover in concrete, discernible ways.
Confidently show
respect for yourself by having high standards for how you expect to be
treated. You deserve to be spoken to in a respectful manner. You deserve
to be kept abreast of what's going on in the other's life and schedule,
to a certain extent.
You deserve to have an appropriate level of
privacy and independence. Make sure you are getting all of these things
and more. Then, just as importantly, make sure you are giving this same
respect to your partner.
If you can get and keep your
partnership to a certain level of mutual trust, honesty and respect, you
will have a relationship worth fighting for no matter what kind of
hardships come your way.
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By the way, do you want to explore more deeply the concepts of trust and respect, then I urge you to read the Girl Gets Ring ebook page to get tools and a blueprint of how to encase your life of love and happiness in an iron vault built on love and respect.
Good luck and good luvin'!
Best Wishes Always!
P.S. I have included below more of my articles on love and relationships. I hope they help, heal and allows love to explode in your life!
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