How To Keep The Romance and Passion Alive
Ellen Mansoor Collier
Biography Magazine
February 1999
• Talk and listen to each other soul-to-soul. Share hopes, dreams/joys, doubts, fears, and hurts as well as daily details. Open communication keeps you new to each other.
• Make time to be alone as a couple. Don't act only as parents and workers. Remain friends and lovers by setting aside time to play and be intimate together as adults.
• Be romantic outside the bedroom. Show affection: Hold hands in public, give hugs and kisses that don't lead directly to sex. Praise and compliment one another often.
• Do thoughtful things to demonstrate how special your partner is: Make coffee or tea, give back or foot rubs, run an errand to lighten the other's load, call to say "I love you".
• Discuss and work through hurt and angry feelings so they don't go underground and ruin your relationship. Accumulated anger kills love.
• Be willing to act unselfishly and to please one another in the bedroom. Don't compare your lovemaking to "Hollywood" sex. Remember, your love is unique and special.
• Put your partner first-ahead of your career, hobbies and religious or community activities.
