Husband-Wife Relationship: Life Long Relationship

Starting, maintaining and improving relationships are the most important aspects of one's life. There are lots of relationships like husband and wife, boy and girl about to marry, parents and children, between siblings etc. Among all of them, the husband-wife relationship is a very unique and life long relationship. Therefore, we are going to concentrate on the following types of relationships:

•Relationship between husband and wife
•Relationship between a boy and a girl deciding to marry
Let us look at the most important factors that are conducive to maintain and strengthen these relationships.

Most Important Aspects in These Relationships

•The husband-wife (already married or having decided to marry) is the most beautiful relationship.
•Nurture it carefully.
•Do not permit any one else (who so ever he or she or they may be) to create a crevice (rift) in it.
•Develop mutual respect.
•Develop mutual trust.
•Communicate, communicate and communicate with each other on whole lots of things.
•Practice respectful communication (do not confuse it by being submissive).
•Never ever use foul, un-civil language or four letter words while communicating and addressing each other.
•Maintain equal status relationship.
•Do not exert one-upmanship (or one-upwomanship) on the other.
•It's not competition; it's pure companionship all the way.
•Develop mutual consideration and caring: demonstrate by communicating and in actions.
•Support and care for each other in trying (difficult) times (sickness, loss of job or any other such happenings) more particularly.
•Be genuine with each other; do not pretend or fake.
•Find qualities in each other and not faults (and not keep correcting the faults in the other).
•Frequently, demonstratively, appreciate or admire those qualities.
•Develop love and affection: also, demonstrate frequently by hugging, kissing and holding each others' hands for no reason, every now and then.
•Develop friendship and so, carry out open friendly communication on whole lot of matters under the sun.
•Give each other some private space.
•Don't keep nagging the other; it can get on other's nerves.
•Mutually satisfying physical relationship is important. It requires full participation from both the partners. It needs to be learnt and practiced and then needs to be re-invented (This is strictly applicable only to already married couples. It is strictly "No" for yet to marry couples).