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How can you improve your relationship?

(57 Posts)
wallers5 Fri 15-Mar-13 11:16:27

Well said 'listen to your partner'. Be friends, do things you both like, be loving and don't have that headache too often. Appreciate what your partner does for you & you for him. Be loyal & grateful.

Maythorn Fri 15-Mar-13 10:52:06

Sometimes it is best to let a relationship spiral off into the sunset, as mine did twelve years ago after being together for thirty two years. People change, not everyone will stay the distance.
If I was to give any advice, it would be stay away from things like relationship checkers or tests and talk to each other, then keep on talking until you reach a compromise.

glammanana Fri 15-Mar-13 10:10:52

Make sure you listen to each other's point of view (even though I am always right) and ensure you have time for yourselves for your own interests.

vampirequeen Fri 15-Mar-13 09:43:50

Make time for each other and be a couple.

Grannyknot Fri 15-Mar-13 09:43:01

Ooh I don't think I want to go near the relationship checker!

Cultivate a sense of humour I would say. I remember watching an interview with Hilary Clinton once, and the interviewer rather boldly asked her how her and Bill got over the Monica event, and she replied "One day, he did something that made me laugh, and the next thing we were talking again".

tanith Fri 15-Mar-13 09:06:59

Walk faster would be perfect advice for us, OH likes to stroll real slow and I prefer a fast walking pace , something we've never solved. Love to have a nice long beach walk no matter the weather..

GeraldineGransnet (GNHQ) Fri 15-Mar-13 08:11:16

Relationships can spiral downwards; they can sometimes also spiral upwards with a bit of tlc. With Relate, who have given us their relationship checker, we're looking to come up with a 12-step programme (OK, maybe 6-step programme) for looking after your relationship.

If you could offer one bit of advice for something to do this week to make your relationship sunnier, what would it be?

And next week? (phew, exhausted already)