http://www.awakeningcupid.com/relationships/ Relationships are some of the most rewarding things that life has to offer and relationships can be the most painful. en-us Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:19:03 EST Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:19:03 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Your life is filled with all kinds of different relationships from online relationships and long distance relationships to those between friends. Most of the relationships you have to deal with everyday are fairly straightforward and might not take a lot of maintenance on your part. The majority of your relationships are simply there having developed out of necessity, like those you have with your co-workers or the postman. They are maintained because they have to be and neither party generally expects much more out of the other besides the very activities that the relationships were founded on. Consequently these types of relationships do not give you a great deal of joy or fulfillment. But the relationship you have with a spouse or partner does. It is this kind of relationship that can also cause a lot of pain. The ups and downs of relationships Every relationship that is based upon strong mutual feelings will go through different periods or stages from the dating stage onward to real love . As any married couple will tell you, there are good times and there are bad times, times when you soar and other times when you are stuck in a rut. Those same couples will also tell you that weathering the storms together has added new dimensions to their relationship. These days it seems that all things are disposable, if something does not do what we thought it would or it presents us with a situation that we would rather not deal with, we are willing to throw it away and move on to something new, only to repeat the cycle. But, we go to far when we carry this mentality over to our relationships. There will always be tough times and it is up to us to work together with the person that we have chosen to spend our life with. Imagine if the people that we loved and counted on the most simply disappeared when things got bad. Where would that leave any of us? A marriage, or any other long term relationship will encounter rough times, times when all you want to do is throw up your hands and walk away, but stop and think about everything that has been invested and take the time to solve the problem and get through the tough times. The relationships that do weather these storms are inevitably better because of it. It will develop into something more profound and deeper, something different than before and better. A marriage is not something static, it is constantly changing and growing - we cannot expect things to stay the same, nor should we want them to. We keep growing as a couple and keep meeting each other anew. Get advice on relationships. Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:19:03 EST http://www.awakeningcupid.com/relationships/advice-on/ Get advice on relationships. You need some advice on relationships. en-us Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:38:38 EST Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:38:38 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 http://www.awakeningcupid.com/relationships/long-distance/ Long distance relationships don't need to be a death sentence. You can start healthy long distance relationships if you'd like to. en-us Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:57:01 EST Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:57:01 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 http://www.awakeningcupid.com/relationships/online/ Online relationships can be a little tricky, but online relationships can also be the start of a beautiful life together. en-us Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:59:08 EDT Mon, 10 Apr 2006 07:59:08 EDT Weblog Editor 2.0