The 10 essential steps to make your relationship work (Astra Niedra)

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The 10 essential steps to make your relationship work (Astra Niedra)



Step 1
Spend time being with each other silently

Step 2
When one of you talks, the other must listen

Step 3
Understand that you both have more than one aspect to your personality — you both have a number of subpersonalities, or selves

Step 4
Accept that you will not like all the aspects of your partner’s personality

Step 5
Learn to recognise when you are both expressing the different parts of you and respond to these parts appropriately

Step 6
Give your relationship time and attention — on a daily and weekly basis

Step 7
Give your relationship time to develop and give yourself and your partner time to grow

Step 8
Understand that we all oscillate between vulnerability and power

Step 9
Accept that not all relationships are meant to last forever

Step 10
Learn how to truly communicate —the nature of communication clarified


Astra Niedra is a writer, Voice Dialogue facilitator and teacher, business woman and mother. She is author of the email newsletter Daily Voice Dialogue, available from www.voicedialogue.com