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5 Ways to Revive a Dying Relationship
If you’re on the brink of a break-up, try this
Remember when you first started dating your significant other? You thought your significant other was an amazing gift that the universe bestowed upon you. You felt so infinitely grateful that you’d found this person and that the person even liked you back.
And now…now your relationship is like a blown-up balloon that hasn’t been popped. Most of the air has seeped out. The balloon is small and wrinkly. It looks sickly and doesn’t even float anymore.
The party is definitely over.
Look, you can just give up on the relationship. Call it quits. Pop the balloon already.
But if there’s a part of you that wishes you could somehow put air back into the sad, sad balloon…then give these 5 suggestions a try.
1. Watch them make amortization tables.
I was trying to calculate how much sooner I could pay my student loans off if I paid more than the minimum each month. The free, online calculator only let me enter one value at a time like $100/month. I couldn’t see how soon I’d pay it off if I paid $20 extra one month, $60 another, and so on.
