13 simple ways you can make your relationship with others better

Brianna Wiest of Huffington Post lists a few tips on how your relationship with others can become better.

1. Spend a Sunday with them. Not a Saturday night, when everything is bustling and loud and socially seamless. Spend a Sunday morning with them, tired and hungover and without plans for the day. Eat breakfast together and don’t fix your hair. Experience each other without needing to entertain.

2. Be comfortably silent. Go for a long drive and allow for bouts of quietness as they naturally happen. Existing in someone’s silence is existing in the most intimate part of their life.

3. Call them when you’re not OK. Take them up on the promise to be there for you no matter what. Tell them the truth. Let them comfort and console you. Tell them that you’re there for them if they ever need it. Hold true to that promise.

4. Hold space for them. Listen to what they have to say wholly. Without anticipating your response, without checking your phone, without wandering eyes. Give them the entirety of your energy. There is nothing more precious and sacred and rare.

5. Talk about ideas. What you believe in. What you theorize about existence, or what fate could have in store for you in the next five years. Just move beyond discussing people and events and petty, daily grievances.

6. Read each other’s favorite books. Trade your personal copies — the ones that are highlighted and marked up, where the binding is almost completely breaking loose from having been flipped through so many times. Share with them something that opened your heart and fed your mind.

7. Create something together. Start a little business or work on a story or paint pictures for fun. Go on a service trip or build a coffee table or redecorate your respective kitchens. Do something where you team up for a greater cause.
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