When you see a couple
walking down the street hand in hand, so obviously in love that everyone around
them can’t help but watch and smile and perhaps even feel a bit jealous, people
can’t but wonder what the secret is all about.
Life gets in the way.
Falling in love is
easy. But staying in love is difficult. Couples at times spend time together with those comfortable routines of marriage, moving from day to day, meal to
meal, moment to moment without ever truly being in the moment.
It’s too easy to
forget that your days with your beloved are finite in this world, that one day, they and you will be gone from this earth, and when one of these precious days
is gone it can never be recaptured.
We get caught in the
day to day sameness of marriage, each one rising and falling in time, to the day
before, the day after, the day to come in weeks, months, and inevitably, some
years and decades. All the while we are longing for love and connection that is
available right in front of us, but too often remains frustratingly just beyond
our reach.
Adopt Radical Romance.
Children get sick,
deadlines loom, there are always pressing demands on your attention. And you think it
is not just as important to keep the ties of your relationship with your
beloved strong and connected? It is too easy to put the time needed to maintain
your relationship last in your priorities. Staying intimate and connected
requires time, effort, and sometimes sheer will, but the reward is well worth
the effort.
It’s damaging to the
soul and spirit to lose your strong connection with your soul mate, your
partner of the heart.
Embrace Radical
Romance.
Make a commitment with energy, creativity and continuous expression of
your love to your partner as well as wooing them.
Romance is an action,
a conscious choice. It requires intention, effort and commitment to stay
connected.
Radical Romance takes
that intention, that connection to the next level. Reach out to your lover
every day, yes every day, to find opportunities to make your partner happy, to
do things with and for your partner that enhance your relationship and your
life together.
And reach out with
the knowledge that there is no payback required, that the actions of love do
not involve keeping scores. Keeping scores diminishes
intimacy, connection and romance.
Radical Romance means
that each partner takes 100% responsibility of whatever outcomes in the
relationship. Imagine what your marriage would be like if you do something
every day to make it the best marriage possible.
This is what Radical
Romance is all about; experiencing your relationship as your greatest adventure
by finding opportunities everyday to express your love to your partner and the
value you place on your life together.
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