Admiration in Relationships is Key to Their Survival

Love is pretty important, right? Love is affection and deep caring for another person. Love is showing and illustrating that affection and deep caring. But love will only get you so far. You also need admiration in the relationship too. Admiration is a key ingredient in the reciprocal process of loving one another and staying in love.

When you admire someone you respect who they are. How they live their life, their strength, beauty, wisdom, intellect and so on. These things that you respect in your spouse or significant other are wonderful traits! They mean the world to you and your partner because it means you all are each inspiring each other to be your best selves. You’re each striving to grow a little more in your maturity, strength and grace and to show off and impress your partner. This can lead to some of the healthiest loving relationships around.

When you admire your partner, you give them acceptance and show faith in them and that combination can be a hard thing to come by sometimes. When one partner feels admiration and shows admiration, the other partner usually feels compelled to return the favor. And this process just keeps on going, each showing admiration for the other’s sense of self, integrity, accomplishments, and core values they hold dear.

Admiration can also be sexy. When you look upon your partner with eyes alight with admiration it’s like feeling the first fluttering of that crush all over again. Your partner wants you to notice them, respect them, see them, and hopefully fall in love with them all over again. And admiration paves the way.

When you’re together in a relationship, there are times couples will hit a rough patch in how things are going in their relationship, but one of the things that can keep things from going completely off the rails, is mutual admiration and respect. You’re able to maintain your listening, compassion, and empathy for your partner. You’re able to keep respectfully communicating with one another despite disagreement. So admiration is nourishing to a relationship, in good times and bad.

Say to your partner, “I admire you” or “I admire you for…..” and watch the self esteem rise and genuine appreciation that surfaces. It makes you feel good to make your partner feel good and vice versa. So get in that habit, and on a fairly regular basis I might add, and watch your relationship grow deeper and more meaningful, day by day, year by year. #admiration #mutualrespect #admirationissexy #longlastingrelationship

Santee Blakey is a Life Coach and Licensed Massage Therapist at Soul Growth Wellness. When she's not biking, reading, or biking, or reading (she needs new hobbies, suggest her some:-), she'll be writing and enjoying a caramel frappacino in her favorite Starbucks. Follow her on Youtube for her series --> Self Acceptance: What It's Really Like (A Journey).