Healthy Relationships

Welcome to our site on healthy relationships. We have built this site in order to provide practical information and advice related to building relationships. Our premise is that “smart people learn from their mistakes, but smarter people learn from others’ mistakes”. Our goal is to provide valuable information in our articles and from our tools that will help you to learn how to be successful and have healthy relationships. Our information comes from many years of research and concentrates on relationships that are deep, interpersonal and interdependent and most of all healthy. We can’t provide a precise or exact procedure to follow to achieve a healthy relationship but we can describe the characteristics of one that will give you an advantage over the average couple. Too often people enter into relationships with little knowledge or understanding and the many marriages, break ups and divorces that result are evidence of this deficiency. Here at what is a healthy relationship we take marriage break ups seriously and if you are close to this line, please read on on our breaking up page.

One of the fundamental tests of a relationship is the ability for each person involved to be able to change and tolerate adjustments. In healthy relationships, both people are able to be flexible regarding the needs and circumstances of the other person but too many changes at one time can lead to feelings of lack of control and anxiety. However, change is a known factor in any relationship and typically occurs at a slow and steady rate. You may want to further read our compatibility in relationships page to find out more about change in relationships. Relationships that are strong involve people who are able to adjust and direct their relationships to a steadier course that maintains the balance in the relationship. Flexibility will be required in order to make changes that benefit the relationship and petty differences need to be set aside so that the relationship can be successful.

To determine how flexible your relationship is, here are some questions that you should ask yourself: How flexible are you? How flexible is your partner? If I were to ask you to give me some recent examples of your flexibility, what would you say? What would you say is the price you have paid for this? If there were no compromises made, then you may need to re-examine your thinking and your actions then, compare those to the importance of your relationship. This is not to say that you need to compromise to the extent that it makes you uncomfortable but healthy relationships will almost always require compromise for the benefit of the relationship rather than proving yourself right. You should consider reflecting on your relationship with your partner often and then make the necessary compromises and perhaps sacrifices so that the end of a relationship is not inevitable.

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