KEYS TO GREAT RELATIONSHIPS.

1. HONESTY: We have to be completely honest in all of our affairs not only with our loved ones, but with ourselves. Always we need to check our motives in any thing we do that could affect our loved ones and their well being. We need to be on guard for self-centeredness, self-seeking as opposed to self-caring and self worth. Nothing will destroy our loved ones’ trust and erase the foundation of love quicker than a person who lies or cheats. Being able to be truthful even when we know that the truth will hurt sometimes is what matters; that our loved one will be truthful and trustworthy is the tie that binds us.
2. ADD TO IT: We need to go into any new relationship with the idea that we can add to that other person's life to give all of ourselves to them with no reserve, not being self-seeking and selfish in our needs and wants, the real definition of love is the caring and nurturing of one another's well being and spiritual growth. Not what you can get out of it, but what you can give to it. Too many times people are like some streets named... “ONE WAY” only.
3 NO EXPECTATIONS: Here again we have to learn to accept our mates as they are, not who we want them to be. We like them for their good qualities, but loving them for their defects is true love. Change in a person is an inside job and only God has that power to grant the change. We must be able to take the good with the bad and vice versa, nobody is perfect let them be who they are and don't expect them to be anyone else, or we will always live with disappointments for a companion.
4 DON'T KEEP SCORE: Avoid keeping scores at all cost. Forgive and forget. Get over and get rid of any resentments or they will destroy a relationship. Arguments over money or children and using retaliation to punish or get back for any injury to our feelings or pride and ego will upset the apple cart. This spiritual illness will snowball all the way to parting of ways and thereafter, then after it all, you will discover there is no winner, only two lonely losers are now left.
5 TRUST IN GOD: The most beautiful relationships survive and grow because God was invited into them. If God can get you to it, He can get you through it, the shortest distance between a problem and a solution, is the same distance between your knees and the floor. When we bow before God we can stand before any man or woman. Trust in the Lord and He will bless your love and keep you whole. Talk to each other and share this commitment to honor our Father and use His divine guidance.

Sincerely yours.