Tips for Keeping the Relationship Spark Alive

Everyone knows how challenging that marriage and relationships in general can be. That’s why all couples can use a little help from time to time on how to keep things passionate, alive and new. There are some ways to do this that make it a bit easier. Have a look at these tips and suggestions to see what works best for you:

• Don’t let the newness go out of your relationship: The longer that couples are together, the more they tend to forget that they are a couple first and spouses, significant others, and parents second. You must put forth some effort to keep things feeling new. Don’t ever forget that a relationship grows into a friendship of sorts. That’s why you should start out as friends, stay friends, and become and stay lovers.
• Understand that you can’t change your significant other: Too many times, people go into a relationship thinking they can change the other person into what THEY want them to be. Anyone that starts out a relationship that way is doomed to fail. Each individual must WANT to grow and change on their own. All you can control is how YOU act or react to any issues that come up.
• Make yourself someone they can respect and love in the long term: Way too often, when the courtship part of a relationship ends, men will stop putting as much effort into making themselves attractive to their women. That’s bad but, even worse, is that women let this happen. This can be fixed by men continuing to put forth effort into the relationship and women not allowing the men to only half-assed try.
• Your strength, self-esteem and individuality need to stay up front and center at all times: Two people make up a relationship. These people each have their own needs and desires that exist within and without the relationship. It’s vital that they keep their own desires and interests at the forefront of their minds. Compromise in a relationship is good but only if you’re not compromising the person you are and what you really want in your life.
• Never just settle for anything: If your partner refuses to grow along with you or address the needs that both of you have, never just settle for what you have. Life is too short to lead a bland existence. Your partner should be someone that cherishes you and enjoys you rather than feeling you’re a duty or obligation.
• Keep the sex great and inventive: Sex isn’t just a physical form of release. It’s also a true closeness; the ideal sharing of passion with each other. These sexual encounters can be as romantic, as passionate or as kinky as each couple prefers. However, it IS critical that these interactions take place on a regular basis. It allows you to both be open, trusting and vulnerable in a way that’s important to having a healthy sex life.

The important thing to remember is to never let passion slip away. Passion is both in and out of the bedroom.