Has your relationship fallen into a comfortable yet predictable pattern? Your relationship is good, yet you yearn for a deeper connection with your partner. You feel like it may need a reboot. You don’t have to depend on taking an exotic vacation to enliven your relationship. Here are simple, lasting ways to revitalize it that you can start doing today.
10 Ways to Energize Your Relationship
- Appreciating your partner’s uniqueness. Strong relationships rest on appreciating the similarities and the differences between you and your significant other. Tell your partner daily something that you appreciate about them.
- Being present. Give your partner your undivided attention. Turn your cell phone off, minimize distractions, and listen.
- Trusting more. Trust means you can rely on your partner and feel safe confiding in them. Start being more vulnerable with your partner so you build trust and strengthen your emotional connection.
- Accepting. Sometimes your partner can’t emotionally support you in the way you want. Their inner wounds or other stressors can prevent them from being fully available to you. Don’t press them. Instead, reach out to friends, professionals, or a spiritual practice.
- Making requests, not demands. Nagging doesn’t work, but requesting does. The way to make a request sounds like this, “I would love it if you could take the garbage out this morning.” Rather than, “I’ve asked you a million times to take the garbage out every morning, when will you do it?”
- Communicating with love. Lovingly communicating your wants and needs. Use a gentle tone of voice and have a calm state of mind.
- Turning conflict around. It’s normal to have disagreements, and conflict can be useful when it leads to a deeper connection with each other. Listen to your partner with an open heart and mind. When you understand each other’s points of view, reaching a mutually satisfying solution is easy.
- Being silly. It’s invigorating to act like a kid again, play and throw caution to the wind. When you and your partner enjoy belly-laughs together, you naturally feel closer to each other.
- Embracing clarity. Be clear in your communication. Your partner can’t read your mind. Ask for what you want, and repeat it gently if needed. Clarity eliminates disappointment and conflict.
- Starting fresh. Seeing each day as a fresh start and a new beginning. Every day allows you to let go of yesterday’s setbacks.
In Conclusion
You’ll feel closer to your loved one when you are attuned to these ten habits. You’ll be able to stop worrying about your relationship and start enjoying it more. Start with one or two and gradually make them a habit.
Next Steps
Does your relationship need a re-boot? I can help. Contact me at (512) 922-4822 or buildlovingrelationships.com or email me at truelovecoach@gmail.com.