In my series of articles to teach people how to find love, keep love and heal relationships on the verge of breaking up. We have to heal our mind, hearts and souls from any pain we may have endured from the past. This is anything that may have hurt you mentally, physically or emotionally. Any short comings that you may have had growing up with. Anything that may have not been the healthiest situations. First off I want to remind everyone how important it is to carry good values in your home. For many reasons, one being that you would hope that your children go into healthy relationships when their time arrives. To have loyalty, laughter, joy, care, kindness, manners and to always have each other’s back at all times. And most of all of course love. This is one of the biggest problems in today’s society. That we are not getting it many times at home or with the friends we meet because many of our friends aren’t learning it as well. I am not saying that you aren't showing your children love. But if you have cheating in the family, yelling or evrything you know might be wrong it is not a good situation for children to hear. Many of us come from broken homes so we miss the partnership of two people working out problems. We miss out in having our mother and father showing tender loving care to one another. All these situations are what help to make a good relationship. If you can’t be loyal with your partner how is it going to impress your children to do this down the line when it’s their time to love? No matter if it is a friend; any type of relationship needs certain values to strive. So what is it that we need? We need to learn how to love. It is easy to say you love a person but to show you love them with all your heart and mean it from the bottom of your heart is hard to find. We need to start with everyday people and show each person including strangers that you care and help those that are in need. After learning to do so you will be able to take the next step which is to care about those that you truly do want in your life. We take love and people for granted. Almost as if it is not this person it’s another one. That type of love won’t do. We want the love you can feel. That unconditional love that this person your partner will be there through happy times as well as crappy times. That we really may want to throw in the towel but we don’t because we fight for the person we love. People are not numbers nor are we disposable. We need to learn people have hearts that break and eyes that cry. If we can take the time to create happy memories as well as growing in the same direction we can make those lasting memories survive. By doing this it is building that union to make the always and forever. Remember most of all it is not greener on the other side. It is almost always bullshit. So after years together and when you think your life has become boring is when you need to look back and reflect on the good times. If you have those memories in a projector, tapes, a cd wherever they might be watch them. Those home movies will show you all those special moments on how, why and what made you get to where you are now. In every new relationship you start building memories by the little things that you do together. It might be that kiss that took you by surprise. The stroll you took together holding hands and how you both felt your hands fit so perfectly. These are the thoughts you need to hold near and dear to your heart as your relationship grows. Don’t play with people’s heart or emotions. If it is not right don’t drag them into a pool of heartache until you find someone that you like. Learn to love yourself that is more important. When you love yourself it makes it easier to love another and more importantly to find true love. Barbara Jeanne xo