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Love agreements

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This means agreements you make regarding your relationship. Depending on your expectations for your marriage, they could be Positive Agreement (great loving marriage) or Destructive Agreement (distant cold marriage).

 

Love agreements are/can be renewed periodically (daily, weekly, monthly). It should not be a “once for all” promise. It should be taken one day at a time to build love and intimacy. While the most important commitment expressed through marriage vows still persists, love agreement should be encouraged on a daily mode, in order for it not to slide into failure and discouragement when either party slips.

 

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According to Douglas Weiss, there are seven different love agreements and they are as follows:

 

Faithfulness – I will be faithful to my spouse at all times and in all circumstances.

 

Patience – I will not try to change things about my spouse that I don’t like, but will modify my behaviours that annoy my partner.

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Forgiveness – I will quickly ask for forgiveness when I have offended my spouse and will forgive them in my heart even before being asked.

 

Service – I will anticipate my spouse’s spiritual, emotional, physical and material needs and will do everything I can to meet them.

 

Respect – I will not act or speak in any way that demeans, ridicules or embarrasses my spouse.

 

Kindness – I will be kind to my spouse, eliminating any trace of meanness from my behaviour and speech.

 

Celebration – I will appreciate my spouse’s gifts and attributes and celebrate them personally and publicly.

 

Love agreement depends on you to work. Depends slowly on your heart.

 

You can make a big difference in your marriage and influence change.

 

With love agreements, you don’t need your spouse to agree with you.

 

Great if you and your spouse are committed to love agreements – healthy relationship where you will both try to outdo each other in expressing love.

 

In the game of love, everyone wins.

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