Sharing your life with someone means having open and honest conversations, even when those conversations are a bit difficult. But that’s easier said than done.

When you build a fire, whether to warm your home or to add a bit of ambience on a cold, winter’s night, you know you’ve got to tend to the fire to keep it going. Relationships are no different. They, too, begin with that initial spark, but you both have to tend to the relationship to keep the heat!

t’s the natural course of things in any romantic relationship: as time passes, the “newness” and “butterflies” gives way to routine. You always know what to expect from your partner, and you’ve heard all their stories.

Intimacy, at the beginning of a romantic relationship, is often easy to achieve.

Frequently pegged as the “honeymoon” phase, the first few years serve as a merging period with your partner.