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Lasting Loving Relationships

jazzymo — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 04:43:00 GMT

What are the secrets of a close, lasting, loving relationship. If you have or had one yourself or know someone who does, please share.

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pb2548 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:20:30 GMT

My husband and I were friends before we were anything else. We laugh a lot together, we enjoy just hanging out with each other. We also share the same field of work, so when he comes home, complaing about something that happened at work, I totally understand. We also have each other's back. Always.

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jrisio — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:49:48 GMT

Communication (verbal not emails or texts) talk, touch and hold. No problem is too big to seperate anyone

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AllisonH231021 — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 15:55:01 GMT

I would have to add (to communicating well with each other) that it's also important for you and your partner to have interests and activities TOGETHER and SEPARATELY. "Too much" together time can also be bad for a marriage/relationship.

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barajasdawn — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:18:51 GMT

My husband and I are together for 37 years and we are both 56. Compromise, unconditional love, working together on everything inside the marriage, thinking of the other person during your day and bringing home their favorite coffee or tea or snack. Little things mean alot. Being a team especially when raising children. Not expecting the woman to do all the house work or all the decisions on child rearing. Treating her as an equal not as a possession. Respect.

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AngelinaDeGriz — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:33:31 GMT

Communications, date nights, and humor are all great parts of our lasting relationship. Even all these years later we still whistle at each other and pinch the occasional "goose"! My husband can make me laugh so hard I can barely breath! We have found our strengths in the relation ship: I do finances, he cooks, we both clean. And, separate bedrooms! We still have plenty of intimate time but, boy, do we sleep differently. This keeps us from waking the other. Then we are less grumpy and more rested.

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g690185b — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:19:27 GMT

The wife and I have been together for fortysix years now! What keeps us together ? Lord only knows. In my eyes she is still as beautiful as the day I saw her at Sears and Roebuck. She worked Catalog and I just about did everythng from stock boy, carry out and paint sales. The first seven years we were married I think we were together myabe only a year. You see Viet Nam was going on and I Enlisted in the Navy. Was I crazy? you bet! crazy in love. The guys in the squadron called me a choir boy because when we hit the beach ( liberty) I always stayed true to my love. I'ld see chaseing the women and I just laughed.

After sea duty I found that if I wanted to stay with her I'ld have to change. I started paying attention to the thing she liked doing . From there I attemptd ( and still am ) to like the same things. We are together to this day so I must be doing something right.

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j480419w — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:35:41 GMT

Always remember the little things. A card, flower or candy for no reason than "Just Because".

Have a date night when you can. Make each other laugh. Ask how their day was. Hug and Kiss goodnight and goodbye. Take her in your arms, look into those beautiful eyes and tell her how great she makes you feel. Remind her that you love and want her but also how much you really need her. Do not go a day without saying I love you. Do the things that brought you together from the start. Always compliment, respect each other and never take for granted.

Every once in awhile, Absolutey blow her mind by going over the top.

For our 25th Anniversary I rented a limo. We went to the first hotel that we ever went to. I took her to dinner at the restaurant where I first said I Love You. I found our florist from our wedding day and had her flowers from her boquet delivered to our table.

Keep the Fires burning.

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j480419w — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:40:43 GMT

Thank you for sharing and for serving our country

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s188762w — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:47:51 GMT

What I found to interesting to a lasting,long relationship is listening to my husband of 17 years. Instead of talking so much. Sometimes he has some interesting things to say.. laugh if you will, but so true..

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s188762w — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 17:48:22 GMT

What I found to be interesting to a lasting,long relationship is listening to my husband of 17 years. Instead of talking so much. Sometimes he has some interesting things to say.. laugh if you will, but so true..

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MartinAndy — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:11:12 GMT

Keyword: Unconditional !

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barajasdawn — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:57:45 GMT

Thank you for your service and sacrifice. You are one in a million. A true gentleman and an honorable man. Crazy in Love is a wonderful thing.

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barajasdawn — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 22:58:58 GMT

I pinch my husband's butt too and he returns the favor. Together 37 years.

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JohnH47594 — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:13:12 GMT

Friendship

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2Papa — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:57:09 GMT

It’s simple:

Love

Respect

Compromise

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r447879w — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 21:58:21 GMT

I've enjoyed reading all the happy married couples post. I'd love to marry again so if you happily married couples have a great guy friend or family member who wants a great wife, let me know. Just reading ya'll's post about how happy ya'll are in marriage makes me desire to remarry all the more. 🙂

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StephanieD160274 — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:39:18 GMT

i am so heartened to see all these cool comments!

Laughter, Laughter Laughter, and enjoying time together. alone time and making time. i really like my husband, you gotta really like your partner.

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s25855m — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:53:18 GMT

I totally agree that having separate hobbies or activities are healthy for a couple. My husband loves to mountain bike but I can't due to medical reasons. I love to sew and create. Why should we stop doing things we love just because the other doesn't participate?

My advise is to not stress over the little things, enjoy those relaxing times together and apart.

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bd8344 — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:02:19 GMT

I believe that the secret to a close, lasting, loving relationship is communication. Without communication you have nothing. You can have passion but if you cannot communicate with each other you simply have a one sided relationship and that never works. I believed in communication but the man I was married to did not think it was important. We were together almost 20 years and married for almost 15 of those. The lack of communication is what broke us up and because he would not talk before filing for divorce, I would not discuss getting back together. Besides by that time he had moved out of state and I was not interested in moving from a sunshine state to a state where there was snow and ice.

I also believe that you need common goals. If you do not have common goals either short term or long term you are working against each other. You need to be a team. "There is no I in TEAM!" We were always a team or so I thought bu the last 4 years the man I was married to took a job as a cross country truck driver. After the 4 years on the road, he had no interest in getting off the road. I would have liked to have him home, and start a family but he had no interest in giving up his freedom to have a normal life. What it boiled down to was he had no responsibllities like he would have if he was home everyday and he liked that. He no longer even had to water the lawn, feed the dog, or take out the trash because I did all of it for him.