While it’s always a good time to forgive, if you’re willing to, the start of a new year is a particularly nice time to consciously forgive. So many of us go through our lives sometimes accumulating little ouches and resentments here and there without addressing them. What often happens is that people wind up brushing […]
Forgiveness
Top 7 Posts For Your Best Relationship
The blog here at MyBestRelationship.com is coming up on its 5th anniversary. In honor of nearly 5 years of weekly blogs, we’ve put together the most popular 7 posts of 2017 to close out the year with. The titles are clickable below – happy reading – and let me know your feedback in the comments. 1. […]
On Building Trust And Why Assumptions Are Deadly
Building Trust It’s no secret that one of the keys to a solid relationship with anyone, romantic or otherwise, is trust. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffet Trust is built over time, in small moments. In the business world, someone might check you or […]
Keeping Secrets In Your Relationship
Caution: Loaded topic. Are you keeping secrets in your relationship? Before going further about this, let me tell you that most secrets in an intimate relationship if you are long-term committed partners are toxic. Poisonous. Secrets are things you are either keeping from your partner on purpose or explicitly lying to them about. Before going […]
Just Apologize: 2 Of The Most Powerful Words You Can Say
Just apologize. Own what you did and say “I’m sorry.” Of course, for an apology to be effective, you have to mean it, and your actions have to demonstrate that as well, but these two words are extremely important. It can be hard to own when you mess up if your relationship is already struggling. […]