Once you've spent some time being in a relationship, its evaluation is of utmost importance to understand the state of your relationship. Whether it's flourishing or degrading, you have to determine it's health and check for signs of a healthy relationship.
One might wonder, why do we have to evaluate it at all? You have to, because sometimes, what might seem right on the surface, could be utterly rotten below it. The health of your relationship determines your and your partner's health, both mental and physical.
You can create your own factors that determine the healthiness of your relationship, but here are a few common factors that might help you cover the base. There is no chronology, that is, all of these factors are equally important for your relationship. So, here are 10 signs of a healthy relationship:
If both the partners get busy in their respective lifestyles and prioritize work, the relationship is going downhill. It doesn't mean you shouldn't work, but it means that if not every day, then in a week, you ought to spend a whole day with your partner without distractions.
A healthy change is acceptable, and perhaps necessary, but a change based on your partner's whim can never be healthy.
Just like your life goals, your career goals could be polar opposites too, but for a healthy relationship, it's crucial to find a common ground that supports each of your goals. There should never come a point when either of you has to sacrifice their career for the other unless there's no choice to it and you both understand and agree to it.
If your partner's corporate job requires you to permanently move to a new city, you should consider doing it and finding opportunities in your career at the new place. A temporary move of say, 6 months or a year, on and off, can be dealt with as a long distance relationship if you both mutually agree to it.
Giving each other personal space doesn't mean setting them free from the relationship, it means to give them time to grow as an individual, not just as a couple. You both should maintain your individual identities, because who you are as an individual hugely affects your relationship with your partner.
Restricting yourself, or your partner of this personal space is being obsessive, and everybody knows, obsessions are never healthy.
A healthy relationship is determined by how the partners are involved and invested. A relationship where you can speak your mind and be listened to, not just heard; where you can express your deeply held fears and wishes, where you can open up and dwell on the little things that matter to you and your partner; where you can fight on the problems that third-world countries are facing or the last decision you both made that went wrong, all with the same zeal.
Fights are an integral part of a relationship, and so is boredom. If you both are able to overcome these, and still be comfortable, your relationship has become your safe zone.
Your relationship should be your home, where you come to at the end of the day and know that now, it's all good. It all comes to down to being comfortable being you with your partner.
These are a few basic signs of a healthy relationship that'll help you determine whether your relationship is blossoming or crumbling.
What do you think? Is your relationship healthy? Let us know in the comments below!
