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25 Most Common Relationship Problems

The document discusses five key aspects of maintaining a lasting personal relationship: acceptance of a partner's flaws, respecting each other's feelings and needs, being vulnerable by sharing feelings with each other, trusting each other on emotional, physical and spiritual levels through practice, and maintaining honesty even when sharing ugly truths to foster trust.

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25 Most Common Relationship Problems

The document discusses five key aspects of maintaining a lasting personal relationship: acceptance of a partner's flaws, respecting each other's feelings and needs, being vulnerable by sharing feelings with each other, trusting each other on emotional, physical and spiritual levels through practice, and maintaining honesty even when sharing ugly truths to foster trust.

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Personal relationship

1. Acceptance
Any partner will have qualities, characteristics, and behaviors that push your buttons and test
your sanity. To make your relationship last, you have to accept your partner unconditionally—
quirks, behavior, flaws, and all. First, you make the commitment to accepting them completely.
Then, you speak up and say what it is that’s bothering you.

2. Respect
Once the chase is over and we've gotten the prize, we often just forget about our partner's
feelings and needs. In lasting relationships, both partners value each other and take care with
their words, actions, and behaviors. If you want to be with that person each day, make them feel
that way.

3. Vulnerability
If you’re not willing to share what’s going on with you or what you need from your partner,
you’re not going to get what you need. Yet, us men, and women, too—out of shame or a habit
built over a lifetime of bottling up our feelings—don’t want to let anyone else in on what’s going
on with us. If you can trust your partner enough to share your feelings, you’re more likely to find
yourself in a safe relationship that lasts.

4. Trust
You have to be willing to trust your partner not only with your feelings but with your
weaknesses. You will have to learn trust at the emotional, physical, and spiritual level. Trust
takes practice and is earned one step at a time. Even when trust is broken, you can find a way to
repair a breach in trust if you’re willing to work on it.

5. Honesty
You have to be willing to share what’s going on, no matter how ugly. You can’t hide behind lies
and deception if you want your relationship to last. If you can’t believe your partner when they
tell you something, or if your partner is hiding things from you, it’s going to be hard for you to
feel safe. Honesty helps foster trust and a belief in each other, which is crucial to making it over
the long hau

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