Have you ever had a great relationship? If you have, then you most likely remember how great and exciting it was in the early stages of your relationship. Many people often refer to the first several months of a relationship as the “honeymoon” stage. That is because early on in a relationship everything is wonderful and things are just clicking. You get butterflies every time you are with the other person, you get excited just at the thought of them, and you just have an amazing time every single time you are together…

But, the reality is that despite how easy and great any relationship is in the beginning, it is always necessary to invest in your relationship and be willing to do things that will allow it to flourish.

It is easy to overlook the importance of having a strategy that will allow you to continually give all you can to your relationship and make sure you are doing those things that will allow it to be a great, long lasting and amazing relationship. Just like we have an approach for pursuing our goals, our careers and the other things we want, we need to make certain we also have an approach for maintaining great relationships in our life.

That means we have to be open and willing to do things that will be beneficial for our relationship and also be willing to invest all we can into our relationships. There are definitely many things you can do. Your approach should include things you can do daily to sustain and help your relationship flourish.

Here are top 30 Relationship Tips to consider and include as a part of your approach:

1. Prioritize being kind over being right;
2. Every morning, remind yourself of one great thing about your significant other
3. Be affectionate and loving;
4. Always be on the lookout for great things your significant other does to appreciate
5. Realize that you have idiosyncrasies too;
6. Start and end every day telling your significant other “I love you”;
7. Have “Talk Night” for at least a ½ hour every week where you turn off the tv and eliminate any other distractions so you can just focus on having a great conversation with each other;
8. Compliment your significant other every single time you notice something great about them;
9. Have consistent conversations about things other than kids, money, work and issues
10. See your relationship as an opportunity to learn from each other and be willing to change those things about yourself that are working against you;
11. Talk about your dreams and desires;
12. Be willing to do things your significant other enjoys doing, even if they are not necessarily your favorite things to do;
13. Make sure you reserve time for date nights and special outings;
14. Eat dinner together as often as possible;
15. Talk calmly about any issues or concerns;
16. Think about and do one great thing for your significant other every single day … it can be something big or small;
17. Laugh together;
18. Always be willing to meet half way and compromise when appropriate;
19. Support your significant other’s dreams and desires;
20. Send texts and friendly messages throughout the day that show you are thinking about them;
21. Be a great apologizer when you are wrong;
22. Alone time is good, but make sure you are also spending as much time as you can together;
23. Come home with little surprise gifts from time to time;
24. Be open and over communicate;
25. Talk to each other at least once during the day, no matter how busy you are;
26. Be willing to see things from your significant other’s perspective;
27. Be gentle, kind and pleasant;
28. Always assume the best of your significant other until they give you a good reason to believe otherwise;
29. Be an amazing listener;
30. Love and Learn.