What stage is your relationship?
All relationships go through different stages and cycles, whether we realise it or not. Are you madly in lust, or passionately in love?
Do you adore or hate each other, or are you simply going through a period of feeling irritated and sick-to-death of one another?
As Denise Knowles from Relate says: 'All good relationships are destined to go through ups and downs no matter if you've been together two years or 20 years.'
So what stage is your relationship at, and where are you heading next? Here's what you need to get through both the good times and the bad.
1. The Romance Stage
2. The Reality Stage
3. The Commitment Stage
4. The Resistance Stage
5. The Resolution Stage
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By Anita Naik
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Di, 23 days [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]
I'm 45 and have been seeing a now 36 year old man for the last 31/2 years for sex. In the beginig we agreed that we would do this once a month. sex no relationship. we started meeting at hotels then it progressed to monthly weekends at his home, which was nice. My problem now is that he wants to have a relationship and keeps saying so. He is my lover and a really good friend, however, we both run our own businesses and us seeing each other monthly now, is because our schedules only allow this time, I can't understand why he wants to change things as we get on relly well and do all the things a couple would do. Holidays, dinnes, etc. To live with this man would cause us both stress and problems as neither of us are in a position to take a backseat with our businesses to allow a relationship more time.