Love Advice That Will Make You Dialed In to Your Spouse
Love Advice That Produces Results
Most people want to have love in their lives. There are many people who offer advice and it can be difficult to sort it all out. These are common sense principles that allow you become Dialed In to your mate.
Love Advice Concept 1: Date Night
Think back to how you felt when you and your spouse were first dating? Remember the anticipation of seeing each other? I’m sure it was an exciting time for both of you. How often do you and your spouse take time just for each other?
Successful couples set aside one night each week as “Date Night.” In order to have a solid martial foundation you have to spend time together. Date Night is a perfect way to make sure the two of you reconnect.
Also, Date Night will provide the following benefits:
1. Setting aside time together builds the foundation of a solid marriage.
2. You need to focus on making Date Night a great experience for your spouse just like you did when courting.
3. Date Night sets an example of love and caring for each other to your children.
4. You may need to rearrange your priorities to make time for Date Night, but your marriage is worth it.
5. Discuss with each other what you would like to do and how you can make Date Night a success.
Use the common sense love advice concept of Date Night to grow closer together!
Love Advice Concept 2: I Love You – Say and Prove It
Love is an interesting word. It is both a noun and a verb. As a noun it implies strong feelings of attachment or want. When used in the context of a verb, it means to demonstrate love.
Let me give you some love advice on love. All people have a strong desire to be loved and to know they are loved. You prove to your spouse we love them by telling them. You prove even more your love by what you do.
You should never assume your spouse knows you love them. You tell them and you reinforce your words by what you do.
Make it a point to do the following two things every day:
1. Tell your spouse you love them.
2. Perform at least one small act of kindness without being asked and with no expectation of receiving anything in return.
As you do these two things each day you will find the love you have for your spouse will grow. You will also find the love your spouse has for you will grow.
Successful marriages are built upon a foundation of trust. Infidelity can destroy trust and a marriage very quickly. It not only can destroy the relationship between a husband and wife, but also the relationship the cheater has with their children. Children of an unfaithful parent find it very difficult to look at a cheating parent the same ever again.
Keep in mind the being unfaithful can be avoided. It means not putting yourself in a situation where cheating is possible. It means being able to clear your mind of thoughts that encourage cheating behavior. If you don’t think it, you won’t do it.
Keep the following in mind as you apply the principles of Love Advice Concept 3:
1. Mental, physical, and emotional fidelity is essential to a happy marriage.
2. If you cheat, your behavior towards your spouse will change.
3. You will eventually be found out if you cheat.
4. Cheaters damage their relationship with their spouse and with their children.
5. Infidelity takes sexual energy that should be directed towards your spouse and directs it to someone else.
6. Pornography does not help a marriage and redirects sexual energy from your spouse.
7. The best way to avoid infidelity is to never be in a situation where it could occur.
What has helped you make your marriage successful? What have you seen others do to produce joy and happiness in their marriages? Let us all benefit from your wisdom. Share it!
Love Advice Concept 4: Extended Courtship
Think back to when you and your spouse were falling in love. Both of you were putting your best foot forward. Both of you were doing all you could to convince your future spouse that you were either the man or woman of their dreams. The two of you were kind, considerate, and affectionate.
You may have even had a special song, a special movie, or some experience that helped the two of you to fall in love. The human brain associates emotions with behaviors and memories. For instance, go visit some place you used to leave and notice how certain feelings come back to you. Try doing some of the things you used to do. You may not do them as well, but just doing them brings back those same feelings you had when you experienced those same things for the very first time.
So it is with courting. If the two of you court each other after marriage, you will find yourselves feeling the same feelings that you did when you fell in love.
Apply the following courting principles for increased marital bliss:
1. It is just as important to court each other after you get married as it was before you got married.
2. There is always time to court each other.
3. Courting means to treat each other as you did before you were married.
4. Continued courting will allow the two of you to re-live the same exciting feelings you had when you were dating.
5. Continued courting provides stability in your family and for your children.
6. The effects of a stable marriage are passed down from one generation to the next and allow you to have a positive impact on your unborn posterity.
Have you ever done the same thing over and over again day after day? What eventually happened? You got tired of it. We all do.
The key to life, and marriage, is to have a certain amount of constant things in your life to provide stability. You then have to have enough variety in your life to keep a certain amount of excitement.
The right mix varies from person to person. If you have too much certainty, you will become bored. If you have too much variety, you will have utter chaos and become stressed out.
So determine in your marriage what things the two of you need in order to have stability. Then look for new things you can do to provide some variety. It can be travel, trying new foods, making new friends, or whatever the two of you decide.
The following love advice points of doing new things will guide you as you add variety to your marriage:
1. Marriage is a double-edged sword because you need the right mix of variety and certainty.
2. Too much variety creates utter chaos and stress.
3. Too much certainty creates boredom.
4. The right amount of variety creates passion.
5. People we truly love do not use variety as a means to pressure their spouse into activities that make them feel uncomfortable or that encourage infidelity.
6. Change happens constantly in life and the two of you have to be willing to change as you go through life experiences together.
7. Learn to become more like a little child and learn to find joy in the little things.
Love Advice Concept 6: Interests – Know Your Spouse’s Interests
You would think this would be a no brainer, but it is amazing how many times people do not know much about what their spouse likes and dislikes. They may have known 10 years ago, but people change.
Your spouse may have had a favorite food a few years back, but now they like something else better. Use yourself for an example. Do you have all of the same interests and likes that you did 10 years ago? Odds are you have some of the same interests that you once did, but you have changed, grown and matured. What used to create a great deal of excitement for you does not interest you as much now.
The same applies to your spouse. They have changed, grown, and matured. They don’t have the same likes and dislikes they once had. By keeping abreast of what your spouse likes and dislikes, you demonstrate to them that they are important in your eyes. You show them you care.
The following love advice concepts will help you in focusing on your spouse’s interests:
1. Knowing your spouse’s interests allows them to feel important to you.
2. People’s interests can change over time, so it is important to always know what pleases your spouse.
3. Knowing what pleases your spouse will allow you to perform meaningful acts of service.
4. Be thankful for your spouse and you will have a greater desire to know what pleases them.
5. A better knowledge of what pleases your spouse will increase love and harmony in your home.
Assuming will at some point get you in trouble. The problem is that one day you will be wrong. This is why you have to know and not assume.
For instance, never assume why someone does something. You will almost always be wrong eventually. People do things for their own reasons. When you assume wrong it causes hurt for both of you. You get yourself wound up over things that are probably not true, and you then upset your spouse with accusations that may not be true anyway.
Make sure you know what the truth is. Knowledge is power and it will help both of you as you grow together in your marriage.
Use the following love advice concepts to empower you in your marriage:
1. An assumption is nothing more than an educated guess at best.
2. Making assumptions keeps you from knowing the truth.
3. Assuming the worst about your spouse can create stress which in turn can have a negative effect on your health.
4. Substitute positive, uplifting behavior and thoughts for negative thoughts and actions based on assumptions.
5. Making assumptions and not seeking the truth is a form of dishonesty. A dishonest person does not want to know the truth.