TIP TWO

Never stop dating! Make an effort to ensure that you never stop spending time together doing fun things. This might mean walking on the beach hand in hand or even sharing an ice-cream. It is not what you do but that matters, what matters is that you are sharing quality time with your partner. Always listen for those times when your partner reminisces about past dates or experiences that you had together whilst dating and jot them down so that when a special occasion comes you can take them back.

TIP THREE

"Marriage is 3 parts love and 7 parts forgiveness" (Langdon Mitchell). Be willing to forgive your partner when they offend you so that the matter can be resolved and dealt with immediately. Do not hold onto an offense as this merely creates bitterness which eventually destroys relationships. "Hatred starts fights,  but love pulls a quilt over the bickering" (Proverbs 10:12)

TIP FOUR

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation" (Oscar Wilde). A relationship will either thrive or die depending on the amount of communication that takes place between the couple. Every relationship requires each partner to share - their feelings, joys, hurts and thoughts. As a partner you need to ensure that you listen and talk. Listen - not only to those things that are being said, but also the way in which they have been said. Talk - about your fears, your dreams, your pain. Do not be afraid to allow your partner into your heart and you life. Good communication allows your partner to understand you and the way that you behave.

"If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.   Love never gives up.   Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.  Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,  Puts up with anything,  Trusts God always, Always looks for the best,  Never looks back,  But keeps going to the end. Love never dies.(1 Corinthians 13:4-8, The Message Bible)