Healthy relationship is vital for spouses to enjoy the lifetime of their relationship. Healthy relationship is a dream for many people and everybody wants to enjoy a relationship that is free from abuse of any kind. This goal has remained just that, a goal for many couples who have spent the rest of their lives in pursuit of a fulfilling relationship. The ingredient of a healthy relationship includes the following values among others:
Tolerance- Partners need to be tolerant and exercise lots of patience with each other. It’s obvious that the partners’ interest may conflict and it take lots of patience to enable a compromise be reached and differences solved amicably. With diverse backgrounds that spouses may come from, tolerance is needed to build a healthy relationship.
Trust- The need for trust in a relationship can never be underestimated, this implies that the couples have confidence that their partners are trustworthy hence no need to be suspicious about their undertakings. However building unwavering trust is one of the most difficult aspects of a healthy relationship. In relationships where there is trust there exists a peaceful coexistence between the partners as the most provoking questions like where were you? With who? Doing what? Are not asked. It also hard to betray such trust as the emotional baggage may be too much to bear.
Respect- couples need to nurture respect between themselves to have a healthy relationship. Most relationship that lack respect is frequented by abuse that leaves the victims in great torment. Wife/husband battery are some of the results when respect lacks in a relationship.
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