Love And Relationships

Love and relationships go together, or at least they need to. Love must flow freely to preserve the healthy nature of any connection shared by two or more human beings. Why? Because loving relationships are healthy and healing. Allowing the flow of your love in relationships permits a healthy influence to enter and enrich your life.

When we withhold love, our relationships sour and turn into unhealthy influences. A closed heart cinches the tie that binds, stagnating the energy of the "pool", making it toxic. This applies to not just marriage, but relationships of all kinds.

Human beings naturally love relationships because we instinctively sense their potentially positive support. Isolation is a form of torture. But when we block love in relationships, the contentiousness afflicts us with torment as well.

So what we crave is love-relationships, and all relationships have the potential to be love-relationships. Regard every person you encounter as your opportunity to grow more loving. Relationships in which you permit your love to flow empower you to more fully thrive in life. The more you choose to love in relationships the stronger your love grows, and love equals joy, health and power.

Here is a relationship quote worth remembering: "You can achieve far more in life with love, than without, love." Advice that steers you toward loving steers you toward health, happiness, empowerment and success.

Even if you choose to separate because you find it too toxic to engage with someone who is withholding, continue loving. Whatever the reason, to the extent that you suppress your love, the relationship's discordant influence drains you of power you could use to make your dreams come true.

Essential relationship advice for anyone who tends to carry a grudge: To withhold your love in relationships, for any reason, is to punish yourself with unhealthy strain and unhappy drain.

To hold back love in relationships is to hold yourself back in life. This applies to a marriage, a relationship with a friend, even a relationship with a client, co-worker or employer.

If you have been withholding love out of hurt, realize that your strategy only hurts you more. Essentially we all want to express love. Loving comes naturally. Stop blocking the healthy, natural flow of your love and relationships that declined in ugly conflict may revive into beautiful accord.

When couples with kids relate in unloving ways toward one another, they hurt more than themselves. Their children inevitably display some form of behavior problems that may include a negative attitude, emotional meltdowns and reckless choices. As parents model a departure from love, relationships of a destructive nature outside the home tend to attract their children.
Simple Solutions

To lead your heart back to love, read love and romance poems and classic love and romance quotes that you can readily find in books and on the Internet. To inspire another to return to love in a relationship, quote great writers on the subject. like this one from Martin Luther King Jr.

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

When a relationship becomes rocky, instead of slipping into negativity, try being more positive. It's difficult not to love someone who is inspirational.

Thoughts are really all that separate love and relationships. How you think of people determines how you feel about them, so resist any temptation to think of anyone in a critical way that closes your heart. To withhold love from another is to withhold love from yourself. Your heart craves love and relationships are gifts of opportunity to love.