MEN ARE FROM EARTH, WOMEN ARE FROM EARTH.

I guess everything is a little different once you've found the person you spend all your time with... the one you look to spending your forever with. You're a little harder on them than you were on anyone else, simply because this is your forever too, not just there’s. You’re committing, almost giving, a fraction of your life to somebody else and there for, at times, find yourself being overly critical. You have to put more effort in and not allow yourself to give up easily. You have to compromise, accept each others flaws and consistently work on the relationship, never becoming lazy. You both make your fair share of mistakes along the way and in the process learn from them and learn to forgive each other. When you struggle with your partner, you are probably struggling with yourself. The faults you see in them touches a denied weakness in you. Before we start trying to change others we need to remember how difficult it is to change ourselves. So many people go through life without acknowledging that their feelings towards other people are mainly determined by the feelings for themselves. If you're not comfortable within yourself and you don't love yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. In a relationship you tend to stumble, you trip and you fall but you're always suppose to do your up most to get back up again, holding each other's hands to help. You may experience some excruciating pain and you may have to become a little tougher but for you it's worthwhile. It's very easy to become irritated by each other's every day annoyances and even easier to allow the hard times to cloud the thousands of good times. There's many distractions and obstacles put in front of you to throw you off course. Some of the biggest difficulties in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something. Looking to find someone to make them feel good. Realistically, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things. It will take the littlest of things to remind you how much you appreciate each other and when you do you can sit back and feel a sense of pride. No one can see into the future to tell whether a partnership can withstand the test of time but it's hope that keeps everyone taking chances. You love and you care for the one you chose to. A real, 'for keeps' relationship is strong enough to withstand the difficulties of life, pull through, keep getting better and make you realise why it never worked out with anyone else.