subject: You Have To Communicate Well With Your Girlfriend If You Want A Good Relationship [print this page] Time and time again when you look at the main reasons why a relationship will come to an end, you'll see that a lot of that is due to a breakdown in communication between the couple. It's not always the main reason, but it is usually at least one of the contributing factors in most break up situations. Knowing that, if you want to be able to build up a relationship with your girlfriend that is going to last - you need to know how to communicate well with her.
You also need to understand that it has to become habitual. You can't have one day of great communication a month and allow all of the others to be flawed, you have to constantly work at it. I guess that is why they say that making a relationship work and last can be hard work, but you know that it is well worth it in the end. It's much better to work on your skills at talking to your girlfriend than it is to be alone and have no one to talk to when you come home.
Here are some tips that can help you if you want to have better conversations with your girlfriend:
1) It's easier when you make it a part of your routine.
It may sound funny to do this, but setting a time and a place to sit down and have a conversation with your girlfriend on a daily basis can help to make it become a routine. When it becomes a routine, one of your relationship habits, it's no longer going to seem like hard work.
2) No matter what, if you want the communication to be healthy, you have to do your fair share of listening.
You can't have things become a one way street where you do all of the talking and you expect your girlfriend to do all of the listening. Things won't be pleasant for very long if that is the way that you are trying to do things. You have to take the time to listen to what your girlfriend has to say, because that is always going to help keep things alive and well between you and her.
3) You also need to be able to ask her things without feeling weird about it.
This may take some time, but asking her the right questions can do wonders for your overall communication in the relationship. If there is something on your mind that you want to know about, you should feel free to be able to ask her. When you don't feel free to do so, that is when you can end up with secrets among you and that usually is a sign that things could use some improvement.
Being able to have good and open communication with the woman you are dating is really important and with the right mindset and the right effort, you can have a relationship that lasts. Don't wait until it is too late before you realize that you have to be able to talk to your girlfriend and listen to what it is that she has to say about things. You'll usually regret it if you do.
