A happy family begins with happy family members who deserve all the affection, love and emotional concern a person can show. Therefore, understanding, respecting and loving every family member is truly important.
Remain emotionally connected to all the family members
It is actually important to understand the need and emotional concern of all the family members. However, the understanding levels and emotional content is different with all the family members. For instance, your parents would require an altogether different respect, concern and understanding from your side. However, your small children in the family within an age group of 8-12 years would require a different set of affection and care. Therefore, it is really important that a person understands the needs of each and every family member along with their expectations and desires. If one is really connected to all of the family members emotionally, which means he/she understands their requirements and meets them all the time, the family would naturally bloom with happiness and love for one another. Understanding the emotional needs of your parents is as important as understanding those of your siblings, children or wife for that matter. Always remember, a happy and contended family begins with cheerful and anxiety free family members.
Never let that boredom and anxiety at work affect your family
This is really very important. After spending 10-12 continuous hours at work, one always feels tired, bored, full of anxiety and mental pressures because of the office work or an argument with one of the clients or customer. However, such things adversely affect the happiness and well being of the family and all the members dwelling in it. This is all the more simple, if you are full of anxiety and depression, definitely all the family members would be worried because of that and cannot enjoy those lovely moments of togetherness and well being. No worries from your side would mean no worries for the family as well. More cheerful you are, the more would be the family. Therefore, one should never let those anxieties at work affect the happiness back at home. Work related problems should always be worked upon while in the office and never carried towards the family doorsteps. This is the best way to tackle with such issues.
Resolve all the matters leading to conflicts within the family
One should always lay a proper and complete emphasis of togetherness and unity in the entire family as this is the only thing that would let the relationships build up more stronger and confident. There are times when two or more people within the family do not support each other and build up conflicts in their relationship. This affects the entire family and the unity between the family members and such families always end up as broken families. Therefore, the main role of a person heading the family here would be to resolve all the conflicts with a cool mind and positive thinking. Don’t worry if the ideas and emotions of your parents do not match with those of your wife. This can be resolved quite easily than one thinks. Speak to your wife and your parents separately, letting them understand that respecting one another emotionally is truly important for a successful family to sustain. They are definitely going to understand your point and come to a common consensus. Once there is discipline and respect in the family, there would definitely be affection, love and care for one another.
Understand the needs and requirements of all the family members
No matter if your son is asking for his new bicycle or your father wants you to purchase a new walking stick for him, always remember that the needs of your family members are directly connected to their emotional content, and declining them would mean hurting the family members badly. Yes, if there is no provision, as the case may be in various families, or the things do not fall in budget, you can definitely speak to the family members and make them understand that this need could be covered or completed under the next expense schedule of the family. Doing so would surely mean that you are really concerned about their need and respect it at the first place, however, it would be done a little later due to certain financial issues. In such a way, the family members would never feel embarrassed. They would rather respect your decision and love you more for respecting their emotions.
Treat all the family members equally
It is very important to understand that affection and love should be given to all the family members equally. This would mean that one should never be biased with his/her family members in terms of emotional measures, affection, love, care and concern. These should be equal for everyone. You should support and respect the ideas and emotions of your wife in the same manner as you would be doing in case of your beloved child. Respecting one and not the other in the family would only lead to unhappiness among one or the other family member which would adversely affect the entire family setup.
