Being in a relationship for a long time gives you time to understand each other, know their tiniest hobbies and learn ways to express your love more freely. However, in a long-term relationship, knowingly or unknowingly one can also hurt their partner. If you’ve experienced emotional damage and want to heal from it and rebuild your relationship or love, we’re here to help.

Though there’s no ultimate way, working on yourself can help you rekindle the love in your relationship so that you can have a healthy and soothing love life.

Here are 3 tips to heal the emotional damage and rebuild the relationship:

1. Know and accept yourself

In every relationship, we forget to pay attention to and respect our feelings, needs and body. We start seeing ourselves as our partners do and sometimes don’t love ourselves enough. The more time we spend learning and understanding ourselves, the better we will be able to express ourselves in the relationship. We will respect our choices as much as we respect that of our partners, making us feel more alive and involved in the relationship. Self-knowledge is the key to success in personal and professional relationships.

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2. Unleash your passion

Passion can be interpreted as you prefer—it can be defined as your indulgence in your hobbies, work or love life. Once you know and understand your passion and unleash it from your inner self, you’ll feel energized as a person and enjoy your life more than ever.

You will find ways to love yourself and your partner in a better manner and reignite the flames in your romantic relationship. When we get hurt, we let go of the things that make us truly happy. By embracing yourself and unleashing your unapologetic persona of yourself, you can be more devoted in your life.

3. Release the grudge

Often, we hold grudges against our partner, our past, mistakes and flaws and this holds us back in our life. Why not hold on to the moments that made us happy, the moment we realized that we love our partner, the second we first laid eyes on them instead of holding onto the times we were enraged, unhappy and not satisfied?

Let go of all the past mistakes and low and heartbreaking moments from your relationship and show gratitude towards every brand-new day that you get to spend with your partner and experience a whole new rush in your body. Once you start appreciating what you have and let go of what you don’t, the world will become brighter and more enthralling for your divine self to flourish.