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Relationship Thoughts: Spice it Up

👉❤️ Buy the game Twister and play it together on a Saturday night alone. Meet up on a lunch break during the workday for a few kisses… or more. Mix things up a little bit and keep that relationship spark alive!

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Relationship Thoughts: Ask the Right Questions in the Dating Process

👉❤️ What are your views on parenting? Do you plan on staying at your current job for the next five years? Are you close to your family? Ask these kinds of questions instead of trying to figure out what type of car that they drive. You are looking for someone who has a mindset to build long term with you, not a person who just provides immediate superficial gratification.

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Relationship Thoughts: Be Playful

👉❤️ Life is serious enough on its own so make sure you and your significant other take time to bring joy and laughter to each other.  Text them a corny joke or have a pillow fight in the bedroom. Bring a smile to their face from time to time… it makes the daily life battles a little easier to bear.

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Relationship Thoughts: Understand Where They Came From, But Don’t Use It As An Excuse

👉❤️  We all have a past. Some high points and some low points. Maybe it’s a string of abusive relationships or an unhealthy childhood environment. When you get a partner who has seen more bad days than good days, if you truly love them then you settle in for a process that requires patience. At the same time, while you are offering them understanding support that does not mean that Read More

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Relationship Thoughts: Study Your Partner. Learn Your Partner

👉❤️ Do they like two sugars in their coffee? Do they always walk in the door after work and look through the mail? On Saturdays, do they always have this one particular pair of jeans that they always throw on? Pay attention to your partner’s little subtleties. Just like you want to be “known and understood… they do too!”

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Relationship Thoughts: Happy Valentine’s Day

👉❤️ Sending internet hugs and love out to all and everyone! Here’s the original Valentine’s Day poem from 1784: “The rose is red, the violet’s blue, The honey’s sweet, and so are you. Thou art my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine: The lot was cast and then I drew, And Fortune said it shou’d be you.”

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Relationship Thoughts: An Argument is Between You and Your Partner

👉❤️ Stop involving everyone in your couple disagreements. It’s disrespectful and humiliating ( to your partner and yourself). You are also forcing the “outsiders looking in” who took sides into a difficult position once the two of you have made up. After the disagreement is over for both of you, your circle might not have gotten over it and now there is unnecessary tension in the air from people who Read More

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Relationship Thoughts: Loving Touches Are Important

👉❤️ Physical touch is a requirement to show love and bonding in a relationship. Holding hands, a shoulder caress or an embrace goes a long way. Humans need connection. Touch reduces stress and anxiety. Humans need loving touches from those we are in partnership with.

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Relationship Thoughts: Right From the Beginning Make Rules About the Toilet Seat

👉❤️ Finding the middle ground in a relationship is such a key element and the toilet seat issue provides a great opportunity to get some practice in. Will he learn to put it down? Will she learn to look before she sits down? It might seem like a small matter, but it is a building block in how bigger relationships issues will be handled with compromise. If you can come Read More

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Relationship Thoughts: Make a Couple Bucket List

👉❤️ Maybe it’s a travel destination, a team weight loss goal, or surfing lessons… make a list of some new and exciting things to try and do together as a couple. Hold each other accountable to completing the bucket list. When you finish the list, add some more items. Keep building and adding on to the unique creation of an “us.”

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