1. You need to spend quality time together. You may set an hour to speak on the phone before you sleep and visit different places at least twice a week. For long distance relationships, both of you may communicate daily through chatting and texting.

2. You must know when to detach from a relationship. If both of you have incongruent goals, you will surely experience emotional pain gradually. This social problem will interrupt other aspects in your life leading to different problems. If this is the case, leaving the relationship earlier is a good option.

3. You must learn how to forgive. If you cannot forgive your partner from a particular issue, this will lead you to a useless relationship. It is because eventually you will create a sense of hatred on your partner. Having a relationship is supposed to be fun not sad.

4. Learn how to accept permanent individuality of your partner. There are actually some personal features that will not change over the life span. The best advice for this situation is to accept it. You must learn to accept and appreciate if you really want that person to be with you.

5. Do not punish your partner from doing something wrong. Punishing him or her may feel pleasing for you, but it will really affect a lot on the feeling of your partner. Instead of punishing him, you can offer him some rewards if he did something good and ignore the wrong things.

6. Learn how to budget. Money is one of the reasons why a couple experienced conflicts. You must learn how to give and take.

7. If you are already married you need to maintain a good sexual life. As we all know sex is one of the factors that maintain a happy married life. If you have a problem with this matter you need to talk to your partner.

8. Learn to manage misconception. This is one of the common problems among couples. Some may think that their partner is into another person, in fact, they were wrong. If you are having a problem with this situation both of you need to confront with each other.

9. Never hide something from your partner. Concealing things may trigger conflicts within the relationship upon revelation of the hidden information. You must expose the truth as much as possible. Dealing with this in the earlier phase of a relationship is better.

10. Learn how to say sorry. Make sure that you are verbalizing the word sincerely. Avoid using this word frequently. You must learn how and when to say the word sorry.

11. Boredom will likely occur in a longtime relationship. You must learn how to put flowers into a relationship. This means that you must know how to make a relationship an enjoyable one.

12. Learn to restore bad feelings. There may come a time that both of you will experience the feeling of hatred to each other. To manage this situation you need to know how to make each other happy. If you don’t know yet, you really need to find it out.

13. Good quality will turn to its other side over time. You must be aware that there are some favorable qualities that transformed into inauspicious one as time progresses.

14. You must listen when one is talking. Let your partner finish with his or her point first before you can have yours.

15. Do not get too dependent on your partner. In a couple’s life, there will come a time that one will be dependent on the other. This is not supposed to be happening because being dependent can diminish the development of your skill, knowledge, and attitude.

The first thing you can do before looking for new friends is to know your personality. Know yourself before you know others. The next step that you will do is to find potential friends. Make sure that you already know them. This step will not really work on people who just moved into a new place because they are not yet familiar with the social environment. If you have available contacts with your potential friends then you may start interacting with each other. It is much easier to penetrate into your relation if you already knew each other. Here are some examples of potential friends: this may be friends of people you know, classmates, workmates, someone who is interested with you, relatives that you didn’t meet yet, and people who seldom hangout with you.

Remember that it is not their job to do the first move. Having friends is not won by waiting. Do the initiative to interact with them and to establish a strong bond. Be careful on how you perceived a person. “Do not judge a book by its cover” there may be some individuals who look intimidating but has a good personality. If you are having hard time meeting with your potential friend, then this is a big stress for you. The best thing you can do is to hang out wherever your potential friends are. This may sound silly but it will work. You may meet one or two cool individuals who have good friends. Making new friends is just like creating a big organizational structure wherein you are connected with your friends, and they are connected with other people.

Here are some additional tips if the abovementioned task may sound difficult for you. First you need to get into your hobby. All forms of sports are considered to be a social activity. This is an activity wherein you cannot find one man in an island. You can meet a lot of friends by just playing the game you love. This task may work well to those people with low self esteem because the contracts for potential friends are already established. Now, it is your job to ask some contact information to sustain a sense of connection all throughout. There will come a time that you feel that the people you met seem indifferent towards you.  Just don’t get affected with this situation. There are some people who are preoccupied that they will have fun when they hangout with you. This is not your fault at the first place. Your job is to look for friends not to act funny for them to have fun hanging out with you.

Having a good social life will improve some human aspects. The more people you get to know the more you develop your interpersonal skills. Knowing people is your job, and it is you who will take the first step. To furnish everything here are some general tips for you to follow. If you want to make new friends, make it happen. Do not think that making friends is a tricky task. Do not choose the type of friends whom you get along with. Move out from your own shell and start interacting with others. Always remember to be patient when making new friends because there are some people who want to know you more before they get to establish a strong bond with you.

When you are in love, the thought of a break-up is a distressing one.  It is often because your judgment is clouded by your emotions.

After a break-up, it is normal for people to go through the five stages of grief:

1. Denial. Your first act would be to deny that the fight or the conversation ever happened, or that whatever transpired will not signal finality.  You keep on thinking that the other side will soon call you and ask you back.

2. Anger. You will want to fight or blame the other party/parties for the break-up.

3. Bargaining. This is when you beg, ask, pray for your ex to come back to you.

4. Depression. This is when you start to feel hopelessness, self-pity, frustration, and being out of control.

5. Acceptance. This is the point when you start to accept that he or she is out of your life.  This is not merely being resigned to the break-up, keeping the feelings of hurt, anger and sadness hidden, but this is a realization that it takes two to make the relationship work, and that he or she is not willing to take that part with you.

Needless to say, the sooner you get to acceptance the better.  But healing takes time.

What do you do when you have just had your heart broken?

1. Be truthful to yourself.

Accept the break-up, and know that there is no sense in pining for somebody who is no longer there.  Be prepared to be single again and avoid mind games.  Mind games can only lessen the chances of getting back together again, especially if your former other half recognizes it.

2. Focus on yourself, for now.

This means three things.  One is that you should not think about what your ex is doing at the moment, where he or she could be, and other things.  Instead try to look for something to occupy yourself with.

Two is that you should take care of yourself.  While a break-up can make you feel resigned and frustrated, try not to wallow in self pity and neglect yourself.  Get a haircut, or undergo a makeover.  Make yourself look good not because you want to fool your ex into thinking you are okay, but because you want to do it for yourself.

Three, get involved with activities that interest you.  Do not go on a drinking spree and getting drunk every chance you get.  Instead, maybe it is time to hit the gym again if you have left, or perhaps you could join a social organization or take up cooking lessons or similar classes that you know will make you happy and more positive.

3. Meet new people. A break-up could be a good opportunity to meet new people, not necessarily with the intention of hooking up with them.  Instead, try to look for new friends.  In your cooking class, for instance, maybe you would meet somebody who shares your passion for cooking.

4. Reconnect with old friends. A relationship usually takes its toll on the amount of time you have for other friends.  With the break-up, you now have the time to get together with old friends and catch up with them.  Not only do you keep yourself busy, you keep your mind occupied, and you do not go into emotional outbursts or wallow in your depression.  Old friends can also lift your spirits up.

5. Know that it takes two to tango. Even if the other party had cheated or had been bad to you, a break-up does not usually happen on a one-way street.  So take time to reflect not just on the break-up but also the relationship.  Take stock of the things that you should have done differently.  This would give you a better insight on how to handle your next relationship.

Together again?

Even as a relationship ends, there are chances when the parties reunite after some time.  So restrain yourself from demonizing your ex too much, or it might look funny if you end up being together again.

If you have decided that the relationship is better in the past, then move on to the next one.  You can start dating again when you feel ready to, not because your mom or your friends have been pressuring you.  And surely not because you heard that your ex is painting the town red with a new partner.

Relationships end, yet you will find that by being honest to yourself and with the help of other people around you, you can bounce back to normal in no time.