First, fill in the gaps in your life. Do not expect your partner to be all things for you, and do not become dissatisfied when he does not meet all your needs. Create your own life with your own interests, hobbies, and passions. You will become a more complete partner when you have a full, varied and interesting life on your own. Forgive what you can and then move on. Being hurt and experiencing sadness and disappointment are part of living and loving.

Choose to accept and forgive and then actively move on, loving freely and openly despite past wrongs. Seek help if you need it to forgive your partner. Buried resentments have a way of resurfacing and affecting the present. Move forward with the clean slate of forgiveness. Keep an attitude of acceptance and forgiveness within your heart at all times, as much as possible. Expect the unexpected. Throughout your life many things will happen.

Job loss, having kids, accidents, illness, and death are all a part of life. Know that these things will happen to you and that you will move through them with strength because you will have no choice in the matter. Expect change to be the one constant in life. Know that no matter how settled things are at the moment, if could all change in an instant. With that being said, be grateful for what you have right now. Revel in the fact that things are great or even just okay as they are right now.

We get caught up in the day-to-day chores and forget to live for today. It happens to all of us. There are always more dishes, more laundry, more chores, and more errands. We fall in bed exhausted at night only to get up and do it all over again the next day. Stop and take time for each other. The chores can wait. Today might be the only gift you have, and those precious moments are fleeting and short unless we make the time to create them. Work on creating those moments every day.