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8 Ingredients For A Healthy Marriage

Marriage is not a degree or a diploma to start and finish with in 3 or 4 years. It is not a part time course rather it is a full time and a life time course not just to study but also to feel and live.

Marriage, just like a meal needs ingredients for it to be tasty and delicious.

The following are ingredients mixed together to create a healthy, happy, long-lasting marriage.

1) Love
What is this recipe without love? We can have many of these ingredients with someone we really like or get along with famously, but if we want something that has real potential to last in the long term there needs to be real, genuine love between partners.

When this ingredient is present all of the others will fall into place.

2) Respect
Respect is the bowl that you mix all of these ingredients together in. Without the bowl, everything else just falls all over the floor and becomes one big mess.

3) Trust
Add an extra cup of trust into this recipe because without it the other ingredients have an exponentially harder time sticking together.

Things easily fall apart when you are concerned about what he or she is doing when you are not together or if they are being to you or not, when you are.

Trust in a relationship is like an eraser on a pencil, it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake.

4) Honesty
Honesty and trust tend to mix well together in this recipe and adding extra of both is recommended. Without honesty, you won’t find trust.

Being open and straightforward with your significant other is the backbone of keeping confidence and security between you in your relationship.

Even one lie is enough to make someone question their trust in you and many other things that you say.

If they can’t trust you to be honest about the small things, how can they trust you to be honest about the bigger things?

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5) Appreciation
Regardless of how amazing, romantic or thoughtful someone is, if too much time goes by where they don’t feel like their efforts are appreciated they are bound to slow down, stop and may leave.

Every healthy relationship I am aware of consists of two people who not only appreciate what their significant other does but also who their significant other is.

6) Attraction
We can say that looks don’t really matter all we want, but the honest truth is that physical attraction to your partner is an essential ingredient for a happy marriage.

This does not mean that the only successful marriage out there will be between two supermodels, everyone is attracted to different things in different ways.

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The key is finding someone who fits what you want and has an equally strong attraction towards you.

Forget about societal descriptions of beauty, be honest with yourself and find a man or woman who makes your heart skip a bit or two everytime you think about them or see them.

7) Affection
People show affection towards their partner in all different ways and some have a hard time showing it at all.

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Each of us has the responsibility to make our significant other feel wanted and loved. Whether it be simple hand holding, a random hug here and there or much larger gestures.

Being affectionate is really one of the key things that distinguishes a relationship from a friendship and it’s important not to let it fade.

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8) Effort Or Sharing
Add two servings of effort or Sharing to this recipe, one from each side of the relationship. A great relationship is not about give and take, it’s about give and give.

You will know you have found the right partner when they put in just as much effort into the relationship as you do.

It’s not a sometimes thing, it’s an all the time thing. If you don’t add enough effort to this recipe things will become stale and bland overtime.

NOTE: Marriage is a partnership of two unique people who bring out the very best in each other and who knows that even though they are wonderful as individuals, they are even better together.