Successful Relationships ... What Does It Take ?

Successful relationships are one of the biggest challenges many of us face. They are are based on trust and caring. Successful relationships are honest and absolutely truthful about what each is feeling in life. They are built on trust, honesty, communication, and faith. Successful relationships are also forged out of hard work; a partner’s commitment to the other.

Successful relationships are always adding something useful to the union,including: money knowledge, household skills, setting goals, family and children hours, nurturing new and old friendships, building a beautiful home environment together, spending meals together, adding hobbies or other entertainment to leisure hours, increasing fun, intimacy, and physical love.

Successful relationships are the basis of a different kind of success, and living up to that means letting go of an old way of life and making way for the new. Somtimes it is all about putting yourself in your partner’s shoes and understanding their point of view. Unfortunately successful relationships aren't easy, and it takes a lot of different skills to make them work well.

Communication

One of the most important skills to learn and practice in relationships is the art of successful communication. To develop and maintain successful relationships, we need good communication and inter-personal skills as well as a good knowledge of ourselves and others, of how we function in situations such as conflict and stress. Communication is so critical and so key in romantic relationships that it not only involves expressing oneself well, but the ability to listen and problem solve, too. Communication can come in many forms, it does not always have to be a verbal exchange. Remember communication is one of the main keys to your relationship success.

Emotions

How do emotions affect communication in relationships? Lets take a closer look. Understanding and owning your emotions and their correlating physical feelings benefits you by: Allowing you to navigate satisfying, meaningful relationships, helping you understand other people, enabling you to understand yourself, empowering your communication process making you “heart smart” – emotionally intelligent. The emotions you feel and convey through nonverbal communication are the foundation of your emotional intelligence.

How does communication in infancy influence adult relationships? As a baby, you were completely dependent on nonverbal emotional communication to satisfy your needs. However, this new means of communication does not render nonverbal communication skills obsolete. On the contrary, the foundation for communication in all relationships remains emotionally- based and nonverbal. Emotional, nonverbal communication continues to play a major role in all your relationships, throughout your life. Even the best verbal communication skills are not enough to create and sustain successful relationships.

Wordless communication conveyed through facial expressions, body language, pace, intensity and tone of voice captures and holds the attention of others and gives you a powerful means for self expression. Without the ability to communicate emotion, it’s impossible to build or maintain robust, healthy relationships, because the communication of emotions establishes the lifeline that sustains all relationships. When you practice effective, satisfying communication you are rewarded with relationships filled with more love, intimacy, understanding and trust. Life is easy, loving, and real when this level of communication is at work in your relationship.

So successful relationships are critical to having a happy, fulfilled life. They are founded on good communication, honesty, compatible personality traits combined with mutual trust and understanding. Practicing these traits become the cornerstones for a happy and satisfying relationship.

Article Written By J. Foley