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Health
Being in a healthy, loving re- lationship is something each and every one of us dreams of having at a certain point in our lives, but do we really know what it means to be in this kind of relationship?
You don’t depend 1 on your partner for
your happiness.
Whether you are with your partner or away from him/her,
don’t need the other person to feel loved but rather to share with him/her the love that is al- ready present within you. And that’s what makes your relation- ships so beautiful and so easy to be in.
You are more con- 3 cerned with giving than you are with
getting.
You are both great givers, of- fering so much but without keeping score. And you give, not because you want to receive something in return, but be- cause you’re both overflowing with love and it feels right to share your beautiful love with the other person.
4 You don’t ‘play games’ with each other.
In a healthy and loving rela- tionship, there is no lying, no cheating, no manipulating, no
punishing, hiding and no pre- tending. You play no games with each other and you treat one an- other the same way you would like to be treated – with love, honesty, appreciation, and re- spect.
You are each other’s 5 best friend.
You laugh, you cry, you play and you have fun together. You share your deepest and most hidden thoughts, fears, dreams, and desires. You understand, love and support each other in everything you do and in every- thing you don’t do and you al- ways take the time to listen and to be there for one another.
When one of you falls down, the other one is there to pick the other one up, without judging, labeling or criticizing what had happened and why it happened.
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You give each other the freedom to be yourself unapologeti- cally.
you continue to be happy and you continue to enjoy life to the fullest. Your happiness is self- generated and you’re not de- pending on the other person to feel good.
You and your part- 2 ner love, but don’t
need one another.
You and your partner love, but don’t need one another. You
In a world where so many people try to ‘fix’, change and control the person they are in a relationship with, you and your partner give one another the gift of freedom, allowing each other to be yourself freely, openly and unapologetically. You encourage each other to be true to who you really are, to be authentic and to live life with integrity without trying to ‘fix’, change and control one another. None of you is struggling with making the other person be less like they are and more like you want them to be. You love one another for who you already are and not for who, and for what you wish the other person to become.
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