Why did the people of Roseto, Pennsylvania have considerable lower dead rates and heart attacks than the national average back in the 60ties? Was it because they ate their daily dose of d-vitamin, did 50 push ups, or sat on a yoga mat and meditated? No.
It was not.
A study carried out by Dr.
Stewart Wolf concluded that a supportive, tight-knit community was a better predictor of heart health than other factors such as diet, intake of red wine, or cholesterol levels.
But how do you go about improving your relationships in today's society? For a starter it is key to realize that every great relationship begins with you.
Yes.
That is right.
Although you may resist this statement the truth is that it really only takes one person to change a relationship and that one person is you.
Have you ever noticed that once you change, your experience change too? This is good news because there are some very key distinctions and tools that will easily help you to improve the quality of your relationships if you want to.
These principles apply to any kind of relationship.
It could be a social relationship, or it could be a romantic relationship.
The same principles apply.
Following you will find 3 tips that are easy to apply which will help you to improve the quality of your relationships.
3 Tips To Improve the Quality of Your Relationship life:

1. Understand that every relationship serves a specific purpose
2. Understand that every relationship has its strengths and its limits
3. Understand how to align your expectations accordingly

Of course, there is a whole lot more to be said about improving the quality of your relationships but for the purpose of this article I will stay with the above 3 tips as these are fundamental to improving your everyday relationships.
But why are these principles key? I will tell you why.
It is because one of the main reasons that we experience relationship issues has a lot to do with our (unfulfilled) expectations: we simply expect other people to give something that they may not have within them to give.
My childhood friend always tells me: "You cannot pull the hair off a bald man's head" but despite of this fact (no offense bald can be beautiful) we - myself included - quite often expect other people to "deliver" what they may not have in stock.
Basically you are better off to accept everyone 100% as they are.
This is, of course, not anything new under the sun, but nevertheless this principle is very easy to forget when we get too caught up in the challenges of our busy everyday life.
But if you follow tip no 1 and start out by determining the purpose of any given relationship it will be so much more easy for you to also appreciate the strength of the relationship.
For example you may expect to share really deep and soulful conversations with a certain friend.
However, your friend may not really be into that type of conversations and prefers to have more superficial, social conversations.
Does this then mean that you should not socialize with this friend? No.
Not necessarily.
All it means is that that the purpose of this friendship may simply be to socialize.
This could be a great strength at the times when you feel a need to socialize.
Then go out and find other more like-minded people with whom you can share more soulful conversations.
This is, of course, a very simple example but the principle applies to any kind of relationship.
Once you determine the purpose of a relationship you will be much more free to enjoy the strengths of the relationship and accept its limits.
You simply cannot expect one person or group to fulfill all of your expectations.
Finally you may want to view each of your relationships as one piece of your bigger relationship puzzle.
Each piece serves an important purpose in keeping it all together.