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5 Tips For Healthy Dating Relationships

By: Tracie Alexander

Break Studios Contributing Writer

Relationships take time and energy to make them healthy and with these 5 tips for healthy dating relationships will help you make sure that your relationship is a success.  Healthy relationships make you feel good about yourself and your companion.

  1. Listen to your partner. When dating someone, it is important to listen to your partner when they have something to say. Open lines of communication can help create a healthy dating relationship.
  2. Teamwork is key when making relationships work. Relationships come with good times and bad times. Cook a meal together, do yard work with one another.  Working together as a team through the bad times will not only strengthen your relationship, but make the good times that much better.
  3. Learn to say you’re sorry. Whether in a disagreement, or you have made a mistake, admitting and saying you’re sorry can show a great deal of compassion in your relationship. A healthy dating relationship requires you to be able to kiss and make up!
  4. Keep the fire burning. Some dating relationships have the tendency to lose the spark intimately or all together. Enjoy bedtime with one another, not just sexually. Talk, watch TV together in bed. Good pillow talk is good for the heart.
  5. Respect and trust one another. Respect and trust play a major role in healthy dating. You must first respect yourself in order to be respected. Respect and trust in relationships are two things that are earned and should be valued.  Relationships built on lack of respect and trust are surely not to 
Posted on: Aug. 31, 2010