Share your thoughts about new relationships

When we enter into a serious relationship with someone, none of us expects to be treated badly. We are attracted to the positive qualities in a potential partner, we feel passionately towards them, we often ignore or fail to see any negative attributes, and we fall in love. But there is something else that influences our attraction to a prospective mate: our need to love and be loved. Each of us longs for a special closeness to one other person. We may be pulled into a relationship by an intense physical attraction, but we also want to be intimately connected to someone who shares our values, who understands us, who treats us with kindness, and who will offer compassion and emotional support. And don't we also want someone with whom we can share our dreams for the future, someone we think of as our closest friend? Perhaps these are the things you wanted when you initially got together with your partner. Share your thoughts and find out more about yourself.

- Dr. Ana Nogales

Living together can be so complicated!!

Every relationship requires mutual and continuous work. When one or both partners cease working on the relationship, it suffers and fails. Love is built day by day and grows with the years. Though the passion of youth may diminish, the time spent together unites a couple even more, as does the recognition that nothing is more precious than enjoying the company of the one you love. My most basic advice is to never forget to dedicate yourselves to each other to appreciate, support, and enjoy each other. And to live every moment intensely, appreciating that special person that life gave you.

-Dr. Ana Nogales