The Top Five Predictors of a Healthy Romantic Relationship
"If you can't value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too." ― Ram Mohan
As a woman who started a business to empower women, the topic of relationships comes up all the time! I spend hours speaking with the women who come into the studio for shoots, and I also moderate a community of empowered women here.
Romantic relationships can take on a lot of forms, and it’s difficult to make hard and fast rules about what works and what doesn’t. However, there are researchers who are dedicated to this study, fortunately and they have a few important insights. Successful relationships, in fact, have several things in common!
First, commitment is the top value in a healthy romantic relationship—however it’s even something more specific than that: “…people who held a steadfast belief that their partner was committed to the relationship were most likely to report being in a flourishing relationship.” What that means is that we have to both discern our partner’s commitment and work to make them feel we are committed at the same time. The remaining factors are:
Appreciation- a measure of how fortunate we feel to have this person in our life. It begs the question: how can we inspire this feeling in others? Kindness is surely a key, but also someone who develops themselves and grows over time.
Sexual Satisfaction- clearly important, but sometimes hard to define what satisfaction equates to for everyone.
Perceived partner satisfaction- how much anyone thinks their partner feels about the relationship.
Commitment to relationship quality- in other words, how much an individual works to create “romance”.
What I appreciated about this study was that it found these characteristics were more important than other factors like age, gender, personality traits or religion.
Bottom line is that you should assess your relationship on a regular basis for these factors. Some of these are not within your control. In a romantic relationship, it takes two to tango!
source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/social-instincts/202009/the-top-five-predictors-healthy-relationship
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