With Valentine's Day embarking once again, I believe relationship advice should be available for everyone. I am in no way an expert on relationships, but have been in a successful one for three years and counting.

As everyone knows, the key to any relationship is communication. Not voicing what’s going right and what’s going wrong in the relationship ensures that it will burst into flames. I haven’t had too many relationships, but with the ones I did, I wanted to seem like the best girlfriend ever. I wanted them to trust me, and feel like I was someone stable and safe to be with. I had this mentality where everything was supposed to go smoothly, and I suppressed speaking out when my partner would do something to anger me, or poke at my pet peeves. The anger and irritability continued to fester inside me, and eventually it would burst into a huge fight that ended in a break up. If only I had spoken up when all the annoyances started to bother me, my relationships might have not ended in such a catastrophic manner.

Another helpful hint in any relationship from the beginning, is to always find at least one common ground or hobby to experience with the other. By finding a hobby or common interest, you now have something that you two can always do together, even if it’s a simple as watching a show you both like on Netflix or baking. This way if you ever get bored and the relationship becomes stagnant, there is always a fall back.

For all you single people out there just know that being single is also great. You don’t need someone else to be happy with life. Being single also helps you to find yourself and what you like to do on your own time. This way if you do find a significant other, you will already be a complete person on your own and not have to depend on them.

With all the X’s and O’s, Happy Valentine’s Day and Good Luck.