Make Your Relationship Healthy
According to psychology professor Shelly Gable of the University of California at Santa Barbara, one good way of strengthening a relationship is to share and celebrate good news with you partner. Couples who respond positively to their partners' accomplishments usually end up being the happiest pairs.
Favorable feedback from partners allow us to validate our achievements and strengthen our relationships because we learn to understand what's important to each other. Our partners begin to understand also the general feeling we went through in completing our accomplishments and so they can also imagine that positive rush we felt with our success.
Even small victories can contribute to our relationships. You got a pat on the back from your boss for a job well done? Share it with your partner. And when it's your partner's turn to tell you about a success, be sure to respond positively as well. Say congratulations, for instance. Or acknowledge the effort your partner put into a job and say that you're not surprised at all when something good comes out of it.
Relationships don't have t be built on or measured by just how we are able to work through the bad times. We should also be able to use the good times to strengthen them.