Birthdays are considered a special day for celebrants. Moreover, they often get special gifts treatments from their loved ones.

Here are key questions and answers that anyone can apply to get it right in a relationship with someone else as well as yourself.

Pain can only exist in a closed heart. Future relationships suffer from past unhealed wounds. If you can't let go, you'll spoil the next or attract a fool. healing the past is a duty, an obligation to yourself and those who depend on you. Here's how.

All our stories of the past are actually a balance of pleasure and pain. But that is not how we remember them. We want to protect ourselves, because we don’t want to admit how much we loved a person, and still do. We hold onto those stories and try to crease a life around them.

Now, what right had she to check his phone book? Where is his privacy? Many women check bank statements, address books, wallets, pockets, you name it. What for?

Most marriages that are troubled have these giver and receiver roles firmly fixed. In marriages that are happy, these roles will fluctuate between the partners regularly, depending on where the need is greatest. Where does most of your energy go during a normal day?

Lying: Obviously not a trait that one hopes for in a potential mate. Lying: A possible form of mistreatment in a relationship that can have you questioning you own sanity.

One of the main reasons that both men and women want to get into a relationship is a fear of being alone. Yet, any relationship that is based on fear is destined to be a very unhappy and unfulfilling relationship. Until you can learn to enjoy your own company you will constantly find yourself getting into relationships that are or end up based on fear.

It's Father’s Day soon, and you're not sure what to get?

Relationships are never perfect and some appear less perfect than others but just because you don't always see eye to eye and just because you have let the relationship slide it doesn't mean to say that you weren't meant to be together.

Do you ever feel hopelessness about your relationship? It's easy to understimate the power of hope in a relationship. And it's easy to confuse misplaced hope with despair. Sometimes starting to acknowledge your own strength is all it takes to restore hope in a better future.

But one thing is for certain, finding that person rather than settling for someone less than what we are wanting is never good. Okay, that is my opinion, but think about it for a minute. If we have high standards and certain specifications to meet our needs, in the long run aren’t we robbing ourselves of happiness if we choose badly or settle for less than what we want?

For a relationship to last, there are few basic requirements. The rapidity with which relationships are breaking in the modern days is a matter of concern and we should try to find out how to make a relationship that lasts for a long time.

Many of us had difficult, even rough childhoods, full of ridicule, poverty, or other limitations. While we may, and do, envy other people and their seeming lack of trials, there are few we would really want to trade places with, if the facades were stripped away. And worse, attempts to get even with other people only cause us to lose traction on the slippery slope we're attempting to scale.

How is that that I have great and not so great relationships with different people? What is there that makes me like and be liked as well as hated (or disliked) and hateful (or despising)? Why do I recognize negative qualities in some people and positive qualities in other people?