Relationship Advice Chapter 6: Take Care of Your Partner When They're Sick

What is the secret to a healthy relationship? Is there really an actual secret as to how to keep it healthy and long lasting?

You bet your ass there is! And not just one - but MANY!

No relationship is perfect, and no one should ever assume it will be. The moment you enter a new partnership your only hopes should be that you are on the same page in all aspects of the relationship, and that you remain consistent in all promised and necessary actions that help improve your relationship.

Through sickness and health…

Married or not, that should always apply. Knowing that you can count on your partner to be there for you during your down times is the biggest comfort of all. It feels good to feel loved. It feels good to be taken care of.

We're not robots, we all get sick, and we shouldn't have to feel guilty when we get sick if we haven't done the house chores, or if we haven't been present much. Our partners should genuinely be understanding and take on our part of the chores.

A loving and understanding partner would take care of you. Make sure you have the proper medications. Make sure you're fed and comfortable. You should show your partner you care, and you genuinely want to help them get back to good health.

Taking care of your partner when they're sick is part of maintaining a healthy relationship. It is in the mix of all the many other things we should do to ensure a happy and healthy relationship.

Feeling loved and showing love is a powerful medicine that can cure a whole bunch of other issues that may or may not arise throughout your relationship.

When we feel loved, we feel happy and accomplished. We feel confident in who we are and what we're doing. We feel alive and worth it.

When we show love, we help someone grow, we help someone shine. When we show love we keep someone alive.

When my fiancé gets sick I make sure I head to the store to get all of the proper medications she needs. I make sure she has a care pack. She's the cook in the household, so I happily suck it up and try and cook us some food even if it will probably suck (good thing she probably can't taste it at the time anyway). I feed her her medicine on time and take her temperature regularly. I make her feel loved and cared for. I make sure she feels worth it.

When I get sick my fiancé runs back and forth like a chicken with no head. She is absolutely amazing. She makes sure I eat, I am warm, I have all the meds I need, and I am 100% comfortable.

We take care of one another because we want to. Because we feel it is vital in a relationship to be a huge part of your partners well being and making sure they feel loved and cared for through sickness and health. Because believe it or not - it is very important!

Take care of your partner when they're sick. Show them you genuinely care and love them. Lift their spirits up. It feels good to feel good. But it feels even better to have the person you love make you feel good, just as much as it feels good to make the person you love feel good (little tongue twister there). Bottom line is relationships are only as hard as you make them. Communicate your feelings and always work together to make one another feel happy and loved. That is what makes a healthy relationship.