Relationship Advice: How To Regain The Best Years Of Your Life

Just the other day, another woman reached out to me after a recent break up. "I gave him the best years of my life," she told me. So many women believe this lie that is simple not true. You choose the best years of your life, and whether they are behind you or yet to come.

Yes, you are not getting any younger, but youth doesn't determine happiness. Our experiences and our attitude do. By learning and applying timeless relationship principles, you can choose to make the future brighter by avoiding another relationship destined to end in heartache.

Unfortunately, some people feel that our bad habits cannot be changed the older we get. We think over eating, falling into bad relationships or smoking become part of who we are and we blindly accept the often horrible consequences that accompany them. We've all heard people say, "I'm too old to quit smoking," or, "It's too late for me to regain my youthful figure."

We are never too old and it is never too late to choose to fix our bad habits and change our lives. I knew an 83 year old man whose health was so poor that he rarely left the house. Some members of his church taught him how he could quit smoking. With their support, he was able to give up this habit he had held onto for years. Weeks later, he was out golfing with his friends for the first time in years.

Isn't it amazing how taking action changed his life and allowed him to enjoy things again? It is possible, if one follows the necessary steps to really change. The only sad part is that he didn't quit sooner and wasted years of his life confined to his house.

The best years of anyone's life are not determined by age, even in relationships. A lady I know became single again. She decided to continue to find ways to enjoy her life and continue on despite her heartache. Eventually she married again at the young age of 80, mainly because of her busy life and great attitude. She and her husband have a wonderful relationship, and enjoy riding their motorcycles, of all things!

If people in their 80's are still dropping bad habits and finding themselves in meaningful relationships, you can do it too. It takes a good attitude, the right support, and knowledge of how to change. Your life is nothing less or better than what you make of it. You decide when to have the best years of your life, and you can always choose have the best yet to come.