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Grow Into Love


As I see it, a relationship should evolve with experience and maturity just as our preferences in foods and beverages do. Elora Canne: En Route memoir

To explain the quote above, we'll start with loving ice cream and later, with a more health conscious awareness, we turn to frozen yoghurt as a delicious alternative. 

As age creeps up and with it a broader perspective, green smoothies become the next best thing to improve our health and meet our flavour needs. 

Then time wears on and we try an even healthier option – say kombucha – as our bodies begin the journey into our wisdom years.




Let's Thrive on our Relationship Journey

By and by we realize there really is no magic elixir to prevent life and relationship mishaps, but most importantly of all, the realization hits that all of these beverages we’ve enjoyed along our relationship journey have one thing in common – they have been primarily mixed with water.

Bland, tasteless, colorless water.

And that is exactly what our relationships are made of too. 

🚰 You have to see the flavorless banality as part of your togetherness if you’re going to make a go of loving this soul you have chosen to be your life partner. 

🍦 It can’t only be about rich and creamy ice cream or flavorsome kombucha. 

👥 No, you and your partner are both human beings designed to experience the whole gamut of life and its emotions; and essentially the majority of the being that you are, is made up of that boring yet life-giving water.

🧊 Love that stuff in you, your partner and your life because your very life and love depend on it!

📜 In the following article, you'll find actual steps to take to start improving your relationship today:   Bring your relationship back from the brink


What’s new on the blog?

Guest bloggers for the month of October! They'll be sharing their relationship expertise with us.

I have an exciting line-up of articles which I’ll share in next week's blog post.

I’m excited to read some new perspectives on relationships, whether intimate, platonic or self-love.

Talking of fresh perspectives, my book is shaping the lives of many couples for the better. You should give it a go too. Your relationship will thrive! Grab it at the link: Creating Sparks That Last


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If you're looking to set the mood while you read Creating Sparks That Last with your love, I have the perfect love songs playlist for you: Date Night In

As always, I'd love to get involved in a conversation about different ways to sharpen our relationships so drop a comment below and let's start a conversation.

Location: Sydney NSW, Australia
Elora is a relationship writer with tips that empower you to build greater relationship success.

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