How to be happy as a couple?
Being happy and happy as a couple is essential for the survival of your couple. Beyond love and feelings in a couple, happiness must be omnipresent in everyday life.
So if you are in a relationship and want to be happy and happy, here are some very important tips and tricks that will help you be happy for a long time.
1. Make time as a couple
How do you want to be happy and happy as a couple if you don’t take the time to only find each other, as a couple once in a while?!
Over the years it is normal to move away somewhat… Whether it is because of work, studies, family, children or other occupations. But what’s not normal is to drift away so much that you no longer feel the need to give yourself quality time in the cut.
A couple must survive in the whirlwind of life, routine, responsibilities, work, children and more. It is therefore important to make time for two, and to find things to do as a couple at home.
A short getaway or a simple night at the hotel!
With children it is true that it can be complicated to leave for a romantic weekend but it is so important to do so. A simple night at the hotel can do a lot of good.
The simple fact of a change of air, a change of environment for 24 or 48 hours will do you a lot of good as a couple. It is important to meet again, very important!
2. Communication in a couple is important
I don’t know about you, but communication isn’t necessarily the easiest part for me, although I’m slowly improving.
Dialogue is important:
And yet dialogue is a key element to be happy in a couple. How do you want to be heard, listened to, comforted and loved if you don’t take the time to talk with your lover or your sweetheart.
Talking about the good and not so good things:
It is important to take the time to talk about the good things but also the less good things. Indeed, take the time to discuss each of the little things that are wrong or displease you. You must share your concerns, your dissatisfactions but also your successes.
Share your emotions with the other:
Sharing your emotions is expressing to the other how you feel. And it can be done with words, but also in writing, by a gesture or an expression. Sharing your emotions to be happy as a couple is very important!
3. Accept the other with their faults and qualities
Seriously, do you know a person who has no flaws…None? Well I don’t!
If you love a person but you don’t accept their faults and you don’t look for all the ways to change this person, your relationship will not last!
We accept each other’s faults!
When you love a person, you have to accept the other as he is. Of course, if certain flaws bother you to such an extent that you are no longer happy, it is better to talk about it with the other person quickly.
4. A couple is about being happy, but it’s also about supporting each other
How can you be happy as a couple if you don’t team up together in the most difficult times or simply in everyday life during the morning routine for example!?
Listen and support each other no matter the challenges!
In everyday life there are many challenges and problems that can arise, whether you are a young couple or an old couple, it does not matter. We have to support each other as a couple.
Help each other and not walk away!
No matter the problem or the difficulty that you encounter in your relationship or on a personal level, you must talk to the other about it. It all comes back to communication, to dialogue. It is much easier to find a solution in 2 than alone in his corner.
5. Respect to be happy
It may seem so obvious that many people forget it over time unfortunately. Respect in a couple is essential to their happiness and longevity.
Indeed, respect is an important value within a couple. Respect the other as much as you would like to be respected yourself.
Forget to pass it!
If you live endlessly in the past, stirring up old arguments or mistakes of one or the other, you will not move forward and you will live endlessly in anger and insecurity.
To make your couple last and especially to be happy as a couple, it is really necessary to forget the past and live the present to move forward together towards the future.
6. Learn to trust each other
Trusting each other in a couple can be a real challenge for many and it’s completely normal. If you share your life with a very independent person, you absolutely have to learn to trust, otherwise you risk seeing them move away for good.
We must stop being afraid and learn to trust the other. If he feels how much you trust him, he will feel much better and so will you.
Allow yourself freedom to be happier
Love is strong and when you love you always want to be with the chosen one of your heart, it’s completely normal. On the other hand, everyone needs a little freedom. So leave it up to your partner if you want him or her to have time to miss you.
7. Have common goals
To solidify your ties and also to bring a little solidarity as a couple, you can establish common goals and projects.
It can be fitness, training, a golden retirement, a major purchase, whatever! It will be good because you will work as a team to get there while projecting yourselves into the future together.
8. Magic in a couple is important
The passion of the first few months usually ends up fading over the years. It’s normal, routine sets in and love and passion give way to the obligations and responsibilities of everyday life.
To prevent your couple from falling into boredom or even indifference, keep a little magic in the couple. Maintain passion and romance and you will succeed in making your relationship last!
9. Have little attentions
The little surprise attentions make the other person very happy. These are small thoughts that mean a lot!
So don’t be afraid to surprise your lover from time to time. Show her how much you care about her with small thoughts and attentions.
Here are some examples of little touches that will greatly please your loved one:
- Write a sweet note and put it in your lunch box
- Order your favorite meal after a long day at work
- Prepare a good breakfast in bed
- Let your lover sleep – in love on Saturday morning ?
- Give him a relaxing massage
- Email or text them to check in on them during the day
- Offer her flowers, chocolate or other small sweets
Other little attentions to please a woman:
To continue your momentum, I suggest this other article with a ton of ideas: How to please your girlfriend?