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title: 10 Tips to Build a Healthy Relationship
description: Healthy relationships don’t just happen, they are built. Both partners must work on improving themselves first as well as improving the partnership.
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# [10 Tips to Build a Healthy Relationship](https://blog.imagorelationshipswork.com/relationship-advice/10-healthy-relationship-tips)

 Written by [Norene Gonsiewski, LCSW](https://blog.imagorelationshipswork.com/author/norene-gonsiewski-lcsw) | July 10, 2019 at 5:00 AM

#### [Healthy relationships](https://blog.imagorelationshipswork.com/relationship-advice/tag/healthy-relationships) don’t just happen, they are built.

#### Both partners must work on improving themselves first as well as improving the partnership.

#### Here are 10 items important to building a healthy relationship:

1. **Time Together** - The very definition of a relationship: the way in which two people are connected. Go on dates, video chat, and make each other a priority with time.
2. **Time Apart** - It's also healthy to have separate interests, friendships, and hobbies too. You'll both grow as individuals and appreciate each other more.
3. **Boundaries** - It's important to give each partner privacy and personal space, and know where you end and your partner begins.
4. **Safety** - Both partners feel safe without any physical, verbal, sexual or emotional abuse.
5. **Trust** - Trust is a key component, and you must be vulnerable. Time to build will vary, but you should be able to rely on each others loyalty and honesty overall.
6. **Communication** - Open and honest communication while sharing your wants, needs, and feelings even when they differ from your partners.
7. [**Managing Conflict**](https://blog.imagorelationshipswork.com/relationship-advice/tag/managing-conflict) - Every couple experiences conflict from time to time, and the key to managing your differences is connecting without insults, name-calling, sarcasm, and other types of [negativity](https://blog.imagorelationshipswork.com/relationship-advice/tag/eliminating-negativity).
8. **Teamwork** - A couple in a healthy relationship views themselves as a team, and teams work together - they don't compete against each other.
9. **Intimacy** - Mutually satisfying sexual relationship and the ability to share together ones thoughts, feelings, and needs. Physical and emotional intimacy maintains a connection.
10. **Commitment** - Maintain your commitment with boundaries between your relationship and the outside world. Work to block any exits in the relationship with an effort to thrive.
    
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*This blog post was written by [Norene Gonsiewski, LCSW](https://rocksolidrelationshiphelp.com/).*

*Norene has been a Relationship Coach, Counselor, Author and Educator since 1980.* *She offers the tools to eliminate conflict, create a vision of a passionate marriage, and overcome the obstacles to success. She* *has helped thousands of couples fix failing relationships and restore the love and passion in their lives.*

*Norene has co-authored two books, [Rock Solid Relationship: Seven Keys to Restore Your Connection and Make Your Love Last](https://www.bendoregonmarriagecounseling.com/new-book-rock-solid-relationship) with her colleague Tim Higdon, and [It’s Your Mind: Own It! A Manual for Every Teen](http://www.portlandrelationshipcenter.com/its-your-mind-own-it/) with Nicole Jon Sievers. *

*Check out her website: [https://rocksolidrelationshiphelp.com/](https://rocksolidrelationshiphelp.com/)*

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