Remember love is a choice

Traditional advice suggests that love is what happens to us. We are falling in love. We cannot control this, and that is what is. Well, that may be partly true, but the decision to continue loving someone in a relationship is a choice. This may not sound as romantic as we would like, but the truth is that the key to happiness is deciding to continue to love your partner every day.

My husband and I got married as strangers: on the day of our wedding, we only knew each other for eight weeks. But it did not matter to us, because we had already decided that we knew the most important things that we needed to know (kind hearts and souls of each other), and that everything else did not matter. We would just continue to love each other forever.

True love may be a matter of fate, but building relationships does not work. It is a matter of choosing your partner, day after day, week after week and month after month, until all of them turn into years.

Being happier in your relationship is something you can control. If you really want to know how to be happy in a relationship, the truth is that it depends on your own behavior and your own mind. By following the tips on this list, you can be happier in your relationship right now.