Participation and patience are some of what make and ensure a healthy love relationship between two individuals. It is realizing this and paying attention to some other aspects that help construct a healthy love relationship between individuals.   A healthy love relationship is characterized by certain essential components which are crucial for sustainability and play a key role in providing a firm foundation for the relationship. Regardless of the relationship, be it friendship or romance or relationships within a family, the elements of trust, respect, sharing and understanding of each other’s emotions play a decisive role in shaping a relationship.

Respect, support, trust, honesty, sharing of responsibilities and even sometimes giving economic aid are few of the necessary demands that encircle the designs of any relationship.  Of course these virtues shouldn’t be misused or abused and each person should know and respect their own as well as the other’s boundaries.  The other elements that contribute equally in guaranteeing a healthy love relationship are the minor elements of togetherness, conflict resolution and settlement of issues with peaceful talks. These aspects, although they may appear to be too negligible to be considered as guiding forces in a relationship, play a very important key role in imparting stability to a relationship. In any relationship it’s essential to be free and open to the other person and the concerned individual should always compromise in resolving any issue. Compromising one’s demands and conditions are always helpful when one tries to bridge the gap between friends or lovers after any amount of conflict or confrontation. To ensure a sound and long lasting relationship one should never keep their grudges and grievances about their partners stored in themselves because it may lead to a major upheaval during a monumental outburst among any one of the partners at any time.  It’s never a good thing to bring up past issues when dealing with the present ones.  In a healthy love relationship both partners should be easy going and comfortable with each other.  They should never let bickering previously over minor issues end up as trivial ego centric issues in the future.  Deal with them and move on.

Giving the required space for the other person in a relationship is another factor that’s playing a decisive role in several relationships in the current era. Previously in a relationship between the opposite sexes the man invariably emerged stronger, taking the role of a decisive force.   In this manner, in the forgone past it was the male who would decide whether his female counterpart is supposed to spend time with him, his family, and her family or with her friends. But presently, the male population is becoming more understanding about the requirements and emotional needs of their female counterparts to be with their friends and thus the current generation can more over boost about having a better insight into enjoying a more stable and healthy love relationship. It’s important for both the partners to feel energetic and loved and happy about the relationship they are sharing with each other and to cherish the happy moments in their lives instead of making issues about their differences and likes and dislikes.

Communication and sharing of experiences with one’s partners surely enhances the longevity and stability of a relationship and these are complemented by the elements of transparency, truthfulness and friendly association. Without these agents of bonding ensuring a healthy love relationship becomes a distant dream.

Leslie Escalante is a Board Certified Physician Assistant and Owner of

Balanced Health & Beauty

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