Tips To Give and Feel Love, taken from the book Instant Karma by Barbara Ann Kipper:
- Think Like a Kid
- Let each person enjoy life in their own way…and participate in their way occasionally
- Put more value on each other than on stuff…or money
- Guess positively when you are not sure
- Be your partner’s best friend and biggest fan
- When things get tough…try harder
- Always give future thought to present actions
- Let the worries go and just love through them
- Hide a little surprise under the pillow
- Hold hands more often
- Give lots of hugs and kisses
- Concentrate on the solutions, rather than the problems
- Let someone else be right
- What matters is how well you live this life and how well you love
- Make your anniversary an all day event
- Celebrate each other whenever you can
- Groom yourself like a racehorse
- Use your greatest talent and encourage loved ones too also
- Become more interested in understanding others than being understood
- Treasure each other like gold
- Awaken him/her with a kiss
- Find a good cause and support it together
- Choose not to waste time on guilt about the past or worry about the future
- Remember…life is about loving and being loved
- Take time to be really silly together
- Even when you’re angry, treat the other person with respect
- Have eyes only for your partner
- Fix something without being asked
- Cook for your sweetie without being asked
- Say you are sorry and mean it
- Tally up the things you are thankful for
- Act with integrity
- Honor the specialness of time spent together
- Enjoy solitude too
- Share thoughts and ideas
- Treasure each other’s dreams and goals
- Create and keep up traditions
- Don’t let discussions turn into arguments
- Take long vacations…together
- Work to keep your relationship vibrant
- Call when you’re going to be late
- Remember special dates
- Be present for each other’s special moments
- Make a good impression on each other’s friends, business acquaintances, and family
- Know what to do in an emergency and plan it together
- Think before you speak
- Speak a kind word to each other as much as possible
- Know that the path is as rewarding as the goal
- Dance
- Give adoring looks
- Hold hands and walk in the rain
- Have rules that are fair and consistent
- Don’t make people wait for you
- Actively choose to be positive
- Touch each other as often as possible
- Put technology away
- Decide you want a happy ending and try to make your dream a reality
- Be self-reliant
- Kiss each other awake
- Kiss each other to sleep
- Embrace change
- Pass up the next chance to criticize
- Let the past stay there
- Be nice
- Learn things together
- Trust
- Learn sign languages for “I love you”
- Appreciate actions over appearance
- Don’t judge, nor allow others to do so
- Embrace morality
- Don’t agree when you don’t
- Appreciate differences
- Encourage each other regularly
- Treasure life as a gift
- Be mindful of your health and treat your body as precious so that you are present for each other
- Don’t be critical of your loved one’s friends –or family
- Stop trying to change people
- Stop texting and talk
- Do what you are expected to do, when you are expected to do it
- Always leave each other with loving words
Oh, and in the case of an emergency–save each other and forget everything else!
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