Tips/Ideas of building a successful relationship

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Building a successful relationship requires trust, hard work and giving your time and resources to the other person instead of yourself.  These three most important steps in building a relationship will be hard at first and some days near impossible for you to accomplish.  But, as time goes on once you have built a good relationship you will find that all three of these will become habit and are easy to do for the one you love.

-Trust
A relationship without trust will not last very long.  You have to be able to trust your partner and at the same time be trusted by your partner.  This means in everything from finances to affairs.  You shouldn’t have to worry about the other person doing things like stealing your money or belongings and using it to fund a bad or dangerous habit or doing things with another person behind your back that shouldn’t be done by a person in a serious relationship.
If you can establish trust in your relationship and not do anything to lose that trust that is an important step in building a successful relationship.

-Selflessness
This word doesn’t come up as much in day to day conversation as compared to the word selfish.  If you want to build a successful relationship you have to let go of your wants and needs and concentrate on the other person’s.  Let them have the biggest piece of pie or spend the last dollar at the carnival game booth even though you want to.

You will find that if you are in a successful relationship that the other person will be doing the same thing for you, so in the end it all evens out.

-Hard work
When it is talked about that hard work is required to build a successful relationship they are not talking manual labor.  What this means is that you can’t sit back and let the relationship work itself out.  If you want this relationship you are sometimes going to have to fight for it.  For example, if you and your partner are separated because of business or a different reason, send emails and text messages telling them that you miss them.  Think about them when you are shopping or go out of you way to get them a special present just because you know that they will like it.

The same goes for when you don’t really like each other at the moment, be the first one to say I’m sorry.  It doesn’t matter if you started the argument or problem it takes two to fight.

Hard work, trust and selflessness are not the only things needed for a successful relationship, but they are the most important.  Accomplish these three and anything else that is needed will be easy to do.