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Advice to keep a marriage healthy can, in some cases, seem a little obvious, but in a lot of cases it can seem like just the advice you need. When you are married or even in a long term live-in relationship, sometimes it’s hard to understand what is going wrong, and it takes only the most basic advice to clear the fog of confusion. Try these 5 ways to keep your marriage or relationship healthy.

By the way, if you are not legally married but have lived together for a long time, these tips apply equally to you because, in fact, you have become a “married couple” by intent if not under law.

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The best piece of advice is to be honest with yourself about when it is and isn’t working. If you kid yourself that everything is fine when it isn’t, things are hardly likely to get better. In fact, you will usually notice things getting steadily worse. The sooner you spot and admit to problems, the sooner you can move past them. Half the work is done as soon as you admit something is wrong, so don’t be afraid.

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Learn to communicate effectively. Too often relationships degenerate into accusations and fighting as the default method of interaction. Can you honestly hope for things to last if that’s how you both behave? If you have something under your skin, sit down and talk it out. Talking about things sensibly rarely makes things worse, unlike accusations and arguing!

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Understand that you can’t fix the problems in your marriage by only fixing your partner’s behaviour. A marriage is exactly this: The joining of two people! So it’s not healthy to make one person do all the changing and adapting. It’s much better to sit and talk it out and then work out how you can both make things better for each other. You’ll find it’s a lot easier sharing the burdens, as each of you will usually only need to make small adjustments to keep the other happy.

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Learn the difference between being in love and falling in love. When you fall in love, the person can do no wrong and people are able to behave in ways that their partner may not necessarily agree with in a normal state of mind. That’s why it can take work to stay in love. The love is still there, but you can’t expect to act however you please and for it to survive. Love is like a fire, it sometimes needs to be tended to make sure it still burns brightly and warmly.

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Understand this principle: You get what you give! So, if you go the extra yard for your partner and prove yourself to be kind, caring and considerate, the chances are they will act a lot more like that toward you too. Think about when you see couples that are really in love, it’s rarely only one of them doing the kind things is it?

Hopefully, this advice to keep your marriage healthy will make a positive difference in your life.

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