A Successful Relationship takes.......

 

You are all so wonderful to pray for me, hold good thoughts for me, and encourage me.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart.  I have always been a positive person, not a negative person, and I will strive to continue to be positive, no matter what.  I can be happy no matter what happens to me because I am a child of THE King, the Great God Jehovah, and I know that no matter what happens to me, He is the Lord of my life and He is STILL in control, no matter what fiery darts Satan throws at me!  AMEN, AMEN, and AMEN!~

I have some words of wisdom today for someone who may be struggling with a relationship.  I feel after having been married successfully for 29 years, I know somewhat what it takes to have a successful relationship.  I have some pointers I hope will help anyone who might read this:

1) Put God first in your life.

2) Love yourself.

3) Respect yourself.

4) Be comfortable who you are in your own skin.

5) NEVER love someone to the point that you let them treat you however they want to treat you.  That does not make for a healthy relationship.  Love and respect yourself enough to keep looking until you find someone that puts your needs above theirs!  Relationships are give and take, not take and take!~

6) Last, but certainly not least, keep the lines of communication open!

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I Corinthians 13:1-13

13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [NKJV: love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [NKJV: love], I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity [NKJV: love], it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity [NKJV: love] suffereth long, and is kind; charity [NKJV: love] envieth not; charity [NKJV: love] vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity [NKJV: Love] never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity [NKJV: love], these three; but the greatest of these is charity [NKJV: love].