15 Secrets For Creating Meaningful Relationships

In today’s fast paced world of OkCupid, Grindr, Tinder, and tons of other apps, it can hard to find meaningful relationships with people. Relationships can be fickle and come with no warranties, so it’s important that we learn to make the most of them and make them as meaningful as possible. Here are 15 tips:

1. Don’t sacrifice who you are. Be yourself. If you pretend to be someone else, you’re building a relationship on lies.

2. Don’t let other people tell you how to feel. You’re smart enough to know how you feel.

3. Accept that others make mistakes. You will too.

4. Don’t let yourself suffer. Suffering is a choice.

5. Don’t try to change your partner. It won’t work unless they want to change.

6. You see others the same way you see yourself. Recognize they’re your flaws, not anyone else’s.

A Real Relationship

A real relationship is the one where your love for your partner is much higher than your ego. Where your understanding of each other’s feelings is greater than your conflicts. Where your emotional bonding is so strong that the fights cannot survive for longer than a few minutes. Where there is so much intimacy, honesty and freedom that there is no room jealousy. Where you respect each others personal space and where there no space for a third person to come in between. A real relationship is the one where you treasure and treat each others heart as your own. A real relationship is not a struggle for control, domination or power. It is a struggle for making your bond stronger and stronger each day with more love, peace and harmony. A real relationship is where both partners get inner peace just by being with each other and where all their conflicts and fights end up in each others arms….Aarti Khurana

A Glass of Milk, paid in Full - SHORT INSPIRATIONAL STORY

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided to ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry so brought him a large glass of milk.

He drank it slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?” “You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness.” He said, “Then I thank you from my heart.”As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was stronger too.

Year’s later that young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease. Dr. Howard Kelly who was well known consultant now was called in . When he heard the name of the town she came from, something stirred within. Dressed in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at once. He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her.

After a long struggle, the battle was won. Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked . A hand written scribble on the side of the bill caught her attention.

It read ” Paid in full with one glass of milk”

Signed, Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."