The 4 Fundamental Pillars of a Relationship
Being in a relationship is a commitment that can provide both people with the greatest joys of life, as well as the greatest suffering.
When you decide to share your life with another person, it means more than just being in love. You have to keep in mind there are cornerstones for success as a couple.
Your life together will bring with it experiences that will help you become better individuals and a better couple.
It’s important that you pay close attention to this aspect of your life because so many people take it for granted. It’s something that everyone needs to feel happiness, courage, be in good health, and live life to the fullest.
Being in love and having a healthy relationship can fill you with happiness, help you grow as a person, and add meaning to your life. Due to this fact, it’s worth learning about the fundamentals pillars of a relationship so you can improve and strengthen your bond with your partner.
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In today’s article, we’ll refer to the four fundamental pillars of a relationship: communication, trust, support, and creativity. This concept comes from psychologist and sexologist Leticia Garcia.
The four fundamentals pillars of a relationship
Communication
Communication in a relationship is one of the keys to maintaining stability with your partner and avoid falling into a boring routine. You should feel comfortable and at ease talking to each other, without fear of criticisms.
Voicing the things that bother you and dealing with your problems in a kind and empathetic way will help you understand each other better and improve your partnership.
Similarly, there must be space for sexual and loving communication, both of which play important roles in your relationship.
Many people falsely believe that asking for something is wrong. However, they don’t realize that it could be a way to spark new passion and excitement. It can also strength your relationship by getting you out of your rut.
Trust
Trust plays a fundamental role in every type of relationship. This pillar strengthens both of you and helps you feel that you complement one another.
Trust means you can be yourself, without the fear of being judged or criticized. This includes not being judged for being who you are or liking the things that you like.
The person you put your trust in should use constructive criticism and not try to change you. You can get this kind of trust with your partner with time and good communication. It’s fundamentally based on both of you knowing how to speak and listen without the fear of being judged.
Support
The level of support that a couple has is unlike any other bond you can establish. This is the connection that facilitates communication and sharing things you have in common.
In fact, when there’s a lot of trust and love in a relationship, the couple develops their own “language” that they use to express themselves, their love, and their shared desires.
Everyday obligations and routine can make you lose the support that binds you. But love and desire can always help this special bond grow again, recovering things that were lost and renewing the strength and passion in your relationship.
Also, you can always be inventive with your partner, creating new gestures to strengthen your feelings for each other. All those things will eventually bring you closer.
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Creativity
Creativity is a quality that we all possess and can cultivate in many ways. It’s the key ingredient and one of the pillars of a relationship that lets you escape your routine. In addition, it can renew a relationship and rekindle the intensity of your love when you feel like everything has changed.
It’s very important to always add new elements to your sexual relationship and the life you share, in addition to reviving those feelings that remind you how much you love your partner.
There are so many ways to enhance your creativity. Together, you can choose to do something special and new to strengthen your bond and shelve the monotony that so often erodes the intensity of love.
By implementing these four pillars, your love will grow. However, it’s important that both of you participate because a relationship is always made up of two people.
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