RELATIONSHIPS are very similar to fireplaces. They can bring warmth and comfort into your home , making it a cozy place to escape the harsh elements we often face outside, but it take work.If you want a bigger and hotter fire you have to put more wood in the fireplace and because wood gets consumed rather quickly, in order to maintain the same level of heat, you must put wood in the fire at the same rate that it is being consumed. 

Love is a wonderful thing when both people contribute to the relationship.When love is fresh and new, you tend to notice the small things, compliment each other often and make continous effort with keeping it new and alive. As time goes on, so does life. Your life becomes hectic or busy with other priorities like work, children or household chores. They start squeezing out the love you once had. What happens next is that the flame goes out and the heat is gone!

Instead of blaming themselves for not feeding the fire, many couples blame the fireplace and say that it stopped working and they all too often begin to look for warmth from other sources. Couples in this cartegory stop holding hands, hugs become a thing of the past, dinner is spent reading the newspaper (if they even still eat together) and when the meal is over, he goes his way and she goes hers.

A relationship requires constant work and attention. The enemy wants us to take all of our focus off the relationship and apply it elsewhere, knowing that if we keep our eyes off it long enough we will loose it.Think back on how you treated each other when you first met, how you talked and the actions you took. Think back to the time when things were great and full of passion and do now what you did then.