Let’s face it, everyone wants to know the secret to how to be happy in a relationship. Humans have been raised for years that the goal in life is not just career, but to find a life-mate and create a life together. However, relationships are dissolving at an alarming rate and many people just do not know how to find happiness within a long-term relationship.
The number one problem that relationships face not feeling the feeling of “being in love” 20 years after you have been married or with the same person. Being in love gives you a sense of euphoria, a high that compares to nothing else. Once you begin living with the person and see them at their worst, these feeling dissipate and either the love matures to a different level or the two grow apart and chase that “in love” feeling their entire lives with other people.
Therefore, it is vital that your relationship has a friendship basis, because when the “in love” euphoria begins to lessen, you still like the person you are with and the connection is more about true interests in the other person and not just lust.
Learning to communicate is the key to how to be happy a relationship, if the two brush things under the rug continuously, sooner or latter there is no more room under the rug to stuff anything and the relationship fails. If something is bothering you, learn to approach your significant other objectively and not by attacking. If you attack, you have just lost the battle because when you attack, your partner defends him or herself and attacks back.
Lastly, learning to listen to what your partner is saying is vital in having a happy and long relationship. If your partner is speaking to you and you show no interest, how does that make them feel? Make time to be together, this is necessary, you need to have time for just the two of you to be together, even if you do nothing more than talk.
