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The Essential Ingredients To A Healthy Relationship
Lovers get married every day. Couples get divorced every day as well. Of all the things a man and woman can decide to do, marriage is perhaps one of the most difficult.
Tthe divorce rate has declined in the last few years or at least remained stable. One of the main reasons for this however is couples have spurned traditional marriage and elected to live together.
Living together, whether married or not, can be one of the best or worst things you’ve ever done. You enter into the sanctity of marriage with high hopes of a blissful relationship and the dreams of a beautiful home and family. For many this has become true, but for many others reality set in and they found it too difficult to continue.
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Building A Healthy Relationship With Your Children
One of the most important aspects of raising healthy children is parents? presence in their children?s lives. Sadly, studies have shown that most parents spend well under 15 minutes per day actually communicating one on one with their children.
The benefit of communicating one on one, making eye contact and paying attention to subtleties in your children?s body language allows you a view into their world. By doing this you will be aware if they are having problems at school, with friends, family, or peer pressures.
If you don?t ask, and don?t pay attention, whom will your child talk to? They may talk with their friends, and while it is great to have such a support, do you really want a child or teenager giving your child advice about important life decisions? Many times it may be these very friends who are pressuring them to do things, or perhaps they may have peers who are jealous of them in some way and who may guide them towards not so healthy decisions. While there can be some truly great friends out there that your children may have in their lives, how equipped are they for giving advice on some of the struggles that they themselves have not even faced? There may also be some things in your child?s life that they have difficulty bringing up with their friends as well, leaving no one for them to talk with. This amplifies the significance of your communication with them because if they can?t talk to you and are receiving poor advice from friends, they will have to struggle with their feelings on their own, most likely bottling them up and harboring them deep inside. This creates great problems for children that lead to problems in adulthood as well.