Relationship Helps: Loving Relationships

A strong, healthy relationship can be one of the best supports in your life. Good relationships improve all aspects of your life, strengthening your health, your mind, and your connections with others.

However, if the relationship isn't working, it can also be a tremendous drain. Relationships are an investment. The more you put in, the more you can get back. These tips can help keep a healthy relationship strong, or repair trust and love in a relationship on the rocks.

How to strengthen your loving relationship

Everyone’s relationship is unique, and people come together for many different reasons. But there are some things that good relationships have in common. Knowing the basic principles of healthy relationships helps keep them meaningful, fulfilling and exciting in both happy times and sad:
What makes a healthy love relationship?

1. Staying involved with each other. Some relationships get stuck in peaceful coexistence, but without truly relating to each other and working together. While it may seem stable on the surface, lack of involvement and communication increases distance. When you need to talk about something important, the connection and understanding may no longer be there.

Relationship

Definition

A relationship is an association between two or more people that may be brief or enduring in extent.

The type of relationship one engages in is determined by the issues discussed in the basis for defining relationship below. Individuals can have relationships with:

1)  Another individual (be it same sex or the opposite sex)
2)  A group (as we see in the case of a leader and the people he/she leads; whether it be a family, church, community etc)

Most scholarly works on relationships spotlights the subsets of relationships - relationships involving people in pairs (group of two).

Basis For Entering Relationships

Secrets To A Strong And Successful Relationship

Ann Smith while discussing on the topic “Secrets To A Strong, Successful Relationship” said the following about relationship:

“Relationships are an important part of life.  They are a way to connect, feel understood and be loved.  Because of their significance, it is necessary to make an effort to create strong bonds”. 

She went further to state that relationships require:

a)     Work

b)     Patience

c)     And understanding

And it must be characterized by:

a)     True commitment

b)     Good communication

c)     Mature love

d)     And wisdom learnt from past mistakes

She passionately advocated the fact that relationships are not fully understood WHEN THE ABOVE ARE TAKEN FOR GRANTED.

MY CHURCH

Oh! my home church,
When shall I feel the warmth of your love again!
And hear the voices of thy children within you,
Praising and worshiping your foundation and Head!
When will my sojourn away from you end?
I long to be back in thy within,
With thy children and feel your warmth again!
So far away, yet so close thou art to my heart,
Thy husband will surely bring me back,
Again within you before the raptures.
Your children - the fruits of thy existence.
I miss you uniquely!

Afelumo J Sesan (1997)

HONOURS

Pigs are animals of honour,

Pleasant, tasty and oily,

Shunning dirt with her horns,

Yet, detested by the honourable.

The street plated with honour,

Is a marksman to glory,

Empowering its victims with righteousness,

Also a reflecting mirror to the dishonourable.

God’s horn is honour,

Hence His mills grind slowly,

But grinds exceedingly small every attitude,

Making the dishonourable honourable.

Emmanuel O. Lekwa