A relationship can be compared to the human body; if you feed it daily, it would grow healthier and be filled with strength — the body would be nourished when the body is rightly fed. However, when you starve the body of food, it would be malnourished and when the body continues to be malnourished, your immune system weakens and become prone to illness, sicknesses and diseases.
Your relationship/marriage could be said to be the same with the human body; if you feed it, it would grow and when you don’t, it would be malnourished and may even lead to the demise of that relationship.
Just as the human body needs a balanced diet to be healthy, so also does your relationship and marriage. Your relationship is typically a product of what you feed it; just like the saying “you’re what you eat”. When you feed your relationship daily with positive energy, your relationship becomes better and when you feed it with negative energy, your relationship suffers.
You might be wondering what the relationship should be fed with daily; love, communication, appreciation, togetherness, friendship, understanding, compromise, affection, care etc are some of the things that your relationship/marriage should be fed with daily. When your relationship is continually fed with these, your relationship grows daily and becomes stronger. However, when you feed your relationship with negatives like anger, malice and retaliation then your relationship would definitely suffer — and things like these are what makes relationship crumble.
People keep wondering why their relationship or marriage suffers but the answer isn’t farfetched. What makes a relationship suffer or grow is as a result of what it is fed with. When the relationship is properly fed daily with the basic relationship needs then your relationship would blossom and when the reverse is the case, your relationship would crash.
Never be too lazy to feed your relationship daily; the basis of a successful and unsuccessful relationship or marriage lies on what it is being fed with daily.
Shawn