10 rules

for dating (or other relationships)

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"The Top Ten Best Rules for Dating"
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The list of 10 relationship lessons below can be applied to any relationship or situation, be it romantic or otherwise.

1. All relationships get difficult at one point or another, be they romantic relationships, friendships, work relationships or family. Eventually, they are also supposed to get better.

2. If a relationship is not getting any better, communicate. If nothing changes and you are not being heard, get help. If still nothing changes over time, there may be nothing else to do but leave.

3. Don't act on your first reaction to a situation. Our first reaction is often too strong and too emotional to make good decisions. We never seem at our best in with the first reaction.

4. Time will always tell as nothing else will -- give it a week, or a month or three months to see if you are dating the right person, or if your current relationship is going anywhere, or how a bothersome situation will resolve itself. Rushing things almost never works.

5. Don't tolerate what's not working for you indefinitely. Beyond a reasonable amount of time for things to work themselves out, issues and situations that bother you need to be resolved. Otherwise, they will drain your energy and happiness.

6. Don't settle for people and relationships that have problems you have to tolerate from day one. The only exception is if you can clearly see that the problems are being dealt with and resolved.

7. Follow the path of least resistance. If it seems too difficult, it is. Find another way to be, to communicate or to turn the relationship around. Find a different solution to the situation. Do not try to bulldoze through people and relationships to make them your way -- that never works. This involves agency both yours and the other person's. The only constant is Heavenly Father's Way and as most of us know, He doesn't alway choose the easy way for us to travel.

8. Don't rush into situations, even if they look promising, as if you are going to get everything you have always wanted. Only time and prayer will tell what the nature of a situation really is.

9. Just because someone describes himself or herself a particular way, does not mean that is how it is. People do tend to misrepresent who and what they are. This is not done to be deceitful, but is done simply because it is hard to see who we end up being in a relationship. Only the actual relationship, time and the guidance of the Holy Spirit will tell who the person turns out to be.

10. Talk with an outsider about what's going on to get a fresh perspective. I find this lesson true over and over! There is nothing like an unstressed, calm outside perspective to give me a good handle on a difficult situation and to help me clarify what to do about it.

and my own point I heard someplace.When making an important decision or you need to know something in a relationship-fast.It helps.