8 Daily Habits That Build a Strong Romantic Relationship

Dec 19, 2018

In any romantic relationship, a strong foundation is needed to ensure the ties becomes healthy and creates a peaceful coexistence between partners. This foundation is built by habits that each partner needs to work on mutually. 

These habits will not only help you in overcoming the challenges that are present in any romantic relationship but will also keep you fulfilled in love towards your partner; a fulfillment that will last a lifetime. 

You can find ways to reinvent these habits with your partner to keep the relationship exciting, refreshed and that continuously allows you to experience self-growth and builds on your self-esteem. A healthy relationship is one that will enable partners to be free while making each other at the same time. A link that allows you to be yourself while building on your strengths. 

The following are habits that form a healthy romantic relationship:

Flirt continuously with your partner to add more spark to your relationship. This will bring more excitement to the link as you get used to your partner over time. It will show your partner that you are always interested in them and have affection towards them. Find new ways to flirt with your partner; be spontaneous. 

Play around with your partner to build on the passion. This will keep you excited by your partner for a long time. You could call your partner a pet name, for instance, joke around with them and be sarcastic with them in a romantic way. 

Ask them a variety of provocative questions and lead them to answer flirtatiously. Dress in a flirtatious way with your partner. Be free with them. Let them feel they can be open with you as well. 

In turn, your relationship will be stronger, healthier, more exciting, more spontaneous and long-lasting.

Travel together if the opportunity presents itself to places that you would not have in everyday life. Explore a vast majority of seats in new environments. You will discover many helpful and enjoyable things. You could find a new language or a modern cuisine, for instance. This will help the both of you grow, be more informed and build the bond between you two. Create travel plans together and give yourself many travel options. 

Create your travel budgets together as a team, each of you should also be responsible for travel responsibilities. You could travel along with friends or just the two of you. Go on road trips together. 

Take photos during these journeys to retain the memories. This is an effective stress reliever and a way to refresh and feel replenished. When you go back to your usual work routine, you will feel more energized to work to your level best. This will make your relationship stronger and more enjoyable.

It is inevitable that sometimes, you will argue and fight with your partner in the relationship. You should build on the positivities in any conflict that you may have with your partner and develop a mechanism to resolve the differences that caused the conflict. These will ease the resolutions of future arguments with your partner. 

Battles can either make or break a relationship. They will make you understand your partner’s point of view on various aspects of the relationship and work towards accommodating them in the relationship. 

You should learn how to compromise; you don’t always have to win an argument. It is also essential that there is a mutual effort between the two of you to develop effective mechanisms that will help you both defeat the hitches in your relationship; for it to be long-lasting, healthy and that makes you feel happy and enables you to grow. 

You could celebrate one another in various ways such as anniversaries and give each other gifts if they achieve a milestone in life, a promotion at work for instance. Recognize the efforts your partner is making in bettering themselves and the relationship and compliment them for this. 

Make your partner’s birthday a special one by inviting friends over to prepare a surprise party, for example. Prepare a surprise vacation during your anniversary to keep the relationship memories alive and create new exciting ones that will linger for a lifetime. The celebrations shouldn't be conventional; the same old ways could prove very dull. 

They are best when unpredictable. This will make your partner feel special. Remember, it is the little things that matter the most. Love notes and congratulatory notes left in your partner’s bag, for instance, will surprise them and put a smile on their face throughout the day. 

Household tasks and chores can be incredibly dull, I know. They are routine tasks. However, they are inevitable. It is essential that you promote teamwork between the two of you in dividing the chores so that your partner is not overloaded with a whole lot of house chores to do. 

You want your partner to feel more attracted to you and appreciated? Then this will do. Encourage your partner when they feel knocked down and demotivated to for example clean the house and wash dishes. You could arrange that work is divided in a way that each partner has a proportion of work that he or she is required to do. This will make the accomplishment of house chores faster and create time for the two of you to spend together. 

You will be able to do activities that build you a bond that you could not have done due to inadequate time. Help each other when either of you falls sick. Be responsible as team partners.

Date nights bring excitement to a relationship. They will help you and your partner change the daily routine schedules that mostly turn out to be boring in the long run. They will always be fun and exciting if you keep them spontaneous rather than conventional all the time. 

Instead of the usual dinner date at the most exquisite hotel in town, you could go for hikes and do sky-dives together in a different destination.  It could be fun, right? You could even spend the night just looking at the stars in the sky together while you reminisce about different exciting things. You could do a whole lot of other refreshing new activities in a new environment. 

Involve your partner in spicing up the dates and make sure that your option works for the both of you. This will build on the bond between you two through the excitement that will be created and increase the durability of the relationship. 

Maintain high transparency between you and your partner. Tell your partner your most hidden secrets and things you would typically not tell everybody. This will go a long way in showing you fully trust your partner and they will trust you in turn with not only his/her feelings but also responsibilities and various aspects of the relationship. 

Be candid about how you feel at any one time, deal with issues that arise immediately; do not withhold them from solving at a later date. Bottled up feelings especially those that are negative could prove detrimental to the relationship in the long run. 

Involve your partner in making important life decisions, involve them in coming up with new ways to improve the relationship, let your friends and family know your partner is the best that you ever had and that he/she cares for you. Let your partner be your confidant, your best friend and the one you trust with your secrets.

Compliments are a show of admiration, gratitude, appreciation, recognition, and love towards your partner. You will want your partner to feel happy, loved and appreciated, right? Then this will do. 

You are expressing relentless interest in your partner through complimenting him or her. Tell your partner why you feel lucky to have him/ her, tell them they look nice, and tell them how you feel towards them. 

Give compliments in different ways. For instance, imagine your partner receiving a written note on the dressing table that says, ‘Conquer this day like the queen/king that you are’; the smile on his/her face; how their day will know that someone is thinking about them. Your partner will strive to make their day a better one and in turn a happier, more fulfilled partner. This will go a long way in building the bond between you and your partner and strengthen the relationship.

Were any of these habits helpful to you? Let us know in the comments if we missed anything that helps you and your partner build a strong foundation for your relationship. Be sure to pass this article on to your friends and loved ones!