One of the things that has always fascinated me most about life is relationships. All relationships interest me from sibling relationships to friendships but it’s the way that romantic relationships work that really captures my fascination.

I entered my first long-term relationship when I was fourteen. Ever since (for more than half of my life) I have been trying to figure out who I am inside and outside of relationships and how to make mine work best. What I’ve learned over the years is that relationships require a lot of hard work but they’re also the best thing that life offers us and one of the greatest ways to learn about ourselves.

I believe, in the end, that the best part of relationships is the day-to-day stuff that we do for each other when we’re in them. It’s those little moments of tenderness and kindnesses and ways we support each other and be there for each other that really make all relationships worth it.

My belief in that is why I’ve written a guide on how to make your spouse feel special every day. It’s not because I think that this is something we have to do in a long-term relationship but because it’s something that I think we should do if we want to have happy, positive, giving and loving relationships. I hope that I keep wanting to do the little things for someone for the rest of my life … and that I keep learning more and more about how relationships work because I really think that’s one of the most important things we can learn in this lifetime.

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One of the things that has become really important to me in the last year or so is the great friendships that I have with other women. I’ve always had female friends around me but I wasn’t always good at truly developing a close connection with the other women in my life. I feel like that is changing as I get older and I think that part of the reason that it is changing is because I am more and more capable of being a good friend to other women as I get to know myself and become more comfortable with myself.

How I’m approaching my female friendships and working on improving them can be explored a little bit in today’s article on How to be a Great Friend to Other Women. In that article, I focus on a few key things that we as women can do to make sure that we are being the kind of female friends that we want other women to be for us.

Would love to know your thoughts on female friendships and how to make them better!

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