Are you remembering to keep love alive in your relationships?
When we get into extended love relationships, like being parents, siblings, children, our own parents, close friendships and even with our significant other, we begin to do some or all of these things:
What we have found after working with hundreds of clients and even in our own lives is that after we get past that first initial part of the relationship, we tend to become so familiar with each other that sometimes we do not show up as our best self.
Let me ask you this: “How do you act when you fist start liking someone, or how do you act when you want someone to like you?”
When we want someone to like us or we begin to like someone, we show up as our best self. We are interested in everything that they are about. We are fun, exciting and funny, right? We tend to overlook many things we do not care for and we tend to be very tolerant. Yet as time passes, and love develops, we can become lackadaisical or even lazy in the relationship and stop trying to perhaps impress or even show up at our best.
The biggest tip we can give you today on keeping love alive is to always Remember to stay in LIKE with them. The best relationships are ones that not only love you, but the ones that also like you!
When we consciously pay attention to how we are acting or treating those we love most, those that we spend the most time with, we are able to have the “REALITY CHECK” to see if we truly are being our best self. If we are not, we can change that! We can easily do a reality check and choose to act differently if we are not being the way we would want to be.
It is a choice to be in a good mood or a bad mood. We have to decide. It is the same with how we act I our relationships. Make the decision to strive to be your best self and to be that person that you deserve to be. This is not about changing the other person, it is about changing you, being aware of how you are showing up and being willing to take a look at how you could do it differently. Spend quality time with each other and do things together that bring you happiness and remind you of why you fell in love with this person to begin with.
When we focus on how we would want the other person to feel, it becomes easy to see how we could do things a bit differently and have a much happier experience. We get to be the person that they fell in love with too!
Watch our episode today that we filmed right on Sunset Beach in California. Watch as we share with you the biggest tip to Keep Love Alive all while watching the waves come in and crash on the beach!