This document outlines four tips for couples to enrich their relationships: 1) spend quality time together through activities, 2) communicate deep feelings openly about all topics, 3) create a sense of trust, honesty, and reliance to feel a sense of belonging, and 4) support each other to succeed individually. It also recommends showing daily attention, affection, and appreciation, which it refers to as a daily dose of "vitamin A". The tips are presented on a counseling website to help couples strengthen their relationships.

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Couples Enrich Your Relationships
& Marriages

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No partner gets into a relationship looking to be separated. No spouse gets married
looking for a divorce. Why do, these outcomes happen, one may ask? Of course, there
are a number of reasons why couples do not stay in relationships. Even fewer are
successful in their marriages.
In my humble assessment, there are four pillars or tips that couples can use to sustain
their relationship and live an enriched married life.
Four Tips for couples to enrich their relationships are as follows.
1 Spend Quality time. Do things together. Be it being in the same room, or doing
common outdoor activities. Spending time together creates a bond and friendship. If
you remember, your relationship was built on the foundation of companionship. This is
what all “good dates” start of achieving. Continue to organise “date nights” all through
your marriage.
2 Communicate deep feelings. Expressing feelings is the juice of every relationship.
Partners need to express their feelings. Complex serious topics of discussions and true
feelings, when not discussed have the potential to keep partners apart, frustrated, angry
and distant from each other. One is encouraged to talk about disappointments, finance,
sex, decision making, parenting, housekeeping and the list goes on. Communicating is
the key.

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3 Create belonging. A sense of “you are my girlfriend or woman”, “I am your
boyfriend or man” is essential for any relationship. Creating trust, honesty and counting
on your spouse is important in creating that sense of belonging. It is more than a safety
net, knowing that your partner has your back. You can rely on your spouse. Creating
security and comfort between partners creates trust and a sense of belonging which
increases trust.
4 Support your partner to succeed. Support and encouragement are the key pillars for
self-actualisation within a relationship. Assisting your partner in baking bread or being
a CEO of a company helps the marriage to succeed. Enhancing the”ME” in every “WE”
is vital and helps partners to succeed. The success of partnerships relies on each partner
excelling and succeeding. Continue supporting your partner to self-actualise.
Along with the above four pillars for couples to enrich their marriages, partners need a
daily dose of vitamin A, 365 days of the year. Showing your partner, Attention,
Affection and Appreciation on a daily basis is important. This dose of Vitamin A creates
only positive side effects. Try this daily and see the difference in your relationship.
Call Julian D’Souza rsw msw for relationship and couples counselling. Julian, uses
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotional Focus Therapy (EFT), Transactional
Analysis (TA) and Systems Analysis to help couples enrich their relationship. You can
also contact Bayridge Counselling Centres for more info.
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relationships-marriages/