How to Have a Happy Spiritual Relationship

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Strive for a good relationship. Marriage is work. It is a false way of comprehending that one can let go completely at home. It takes some effort to make a relationship succeed, and you have to decide if you're willing to put in that work.

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   Be in your relationship yourself. Live yourself and your needs so that you feel good in thee. Do not work too much.
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   Avoid too much criticism. Do criticism factual, sensitive and at the right moment. The basic rule for each relationship is least 2 / 3 praise and less than 1 / 3 critique.
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   Avoid to cut off your partner too often his wishes. Say yes as often as is possible.
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   Solve conflicts constructively. Clarify the precise factual situation. Think about different solutions. Find the good common ground.
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   Spend regular time with certain activities that make you and your partner pleasure. For example, sex, dining, travel, excursions and a common hobby.
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   Gladden your partner regularly with a little attention. For example, flowers, small gifts and affection. Tell him that you love him. Take him in the arm. Rejoice with positive sentences and gestures.
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   Avoid things that your partner does not like. Work on your own negative characteristics.
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   Limit up adequately against negative behavior from your partner (for example tantrums, violations of positive life principles). Do not reward negative behavior. Stay in an neutral form or say "No".
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   Be a good team. A good relationship is based on teamwork. A good team has a common goal. It knows its way to success.
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    Be gently with each other. Go out of the way, if you are aggressive. Come for yourself to peace, before you communicate with your partner. Be more gentle than aggressive. Love grows on the basis of non-violence, wisdom and gentleness.
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    Compliment each other. Men love admiration. Women love gestures of affection.
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    Be honest with each other. Live in truth. Truth is the basis of every good relationship.
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    Anchor your relationship in a positive principle. Find a suitable name for this higher principle. Call it luck, love, truth, or spirituality. Connect you regularly and in all beautiful and all difficult situations with your higher principle. Live in the center of your relationship from your higher principle.
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    Forgive one another your faults. Love means to be able to forgive. Love means to apologize.
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    Have patience. Love means to have patience.
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    Be modest. Do not demand too much from the partner, the life and yourself. Anyone who can not limit his wishes becomes permanently unhappy. Who does not know his point of satisfaction will never be satisfied. What is your full stop?
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    Take your partner like he is. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. No man is perfect. Love means to love the partner with his weaknesses. Accept the smallness in you, then you can take it in your fellow man.
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    Do daily spiritual exercises such as yoga, walking, reading, reflection (introspection), positive thinking (cognitive work) and meditation.
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    Do never stop to wish all beings happy. Who wishes the happiness of all beings is growing in his own happiness. This is the highest spiritual wisdom.