You Won’t Believe This One Simple Way to a Healthy Relationship

Get ready for earth shaking, ground quaking, light bulb popping up over your head kind of revelation...According to a study out of the University of California, Berkeley, if you want to be happy in your relationships you should say "thank you" to your partner.

Researchers have found that feeling appreciated by your partner influences how you act in your relationship. The researchers found that when people felt appreciated by their partner, they were more likely to be more appreciative of their partner the following day. They were also less likely to have broken up in nine months. Said the researchers, "What goes wrong in a lot of relationships is if you start to take your partner for granted. You get used to having them in your life and forget why you chose to be with them." The study was published May 28 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Oh, so you are not surprised by this?  Join the club.  It seems so completely obvious that it's hard to believe that they made a study out of this.  However, it seems on a daily basis we all tend to miss the obvious, especially when it comes to relationships.  I don't know about you but I'll take this as a friendly reminder to show appreciation more often for my husband and I know it'll come back to me.  Give it a try and see what happens.