In all of our difficult times, family acts as a buffer. Whenever we are worried, sick, or even frustrated, the only cure that we have is to go back home and sit with everyone else. Personally, I have had a very deep friendship with my parents. So, whenever I was sad or even depressed, even sitting with my parents would make me feel happy. My family made me feel safe and I felt that I could do anything if my parents supported me. I still feel as if I can perform any task if my parents tell me that I can do it.

It has actually been determined that those who don’t have a family tend to commit suicide more than those who have a family. Why is that?

According to Maslow, each and every human feels a need of belonging. After his or her primary needs which include biological needs, the need of association arises and it urges him to fulfill it. In addition to it, it has also been analyzed that people without a family develop depressions. It is quite unfortunate for those who have families but still are not investing in them since they are losing an opportunity.

When your family is supporting you all the time, isn’t it your responsibility to support them as well?

As I have said before, there are countless ways of supporting your family and paying for their expenses and fulfilling their need is one of the best ways of showing your gratitude. The feeling of relief, whenever you think about your family, is enough all the money you invest in them.

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It wouldn’t be wrong to say that family is a gift to us that we cannot deny. Nothing in the world can replace the emotional support that you can get from your family. Have you ever felt scared as a child to go outside?

Most of the children wouldn’t have feared to go outside because they would have their parents to look out for them and go with them. Even in the dark, we have either parents or grandparents to care for us and assure us that nothing bad is going to happen to us. Believe me, we have come to ignore this gift and we don’t even pay attention to our ignorance. You can start investing in your family and be an example that other children in the family will follow. Naturally, if you carry the financial burden of your family then you can be the ideal of children in the family. They will follow you and this will become a tradition that will not be broken even in generations.

The surprising thing is that investing in your family is just like adding to your account. It not only builds emotional support but also reserves that you can draw from whenever you are distressed. Following are the six strategies that you can utilize for boosting resilience, communication, and love in your family:

1. Build resilience: One of the most important lessons that you should keep in mind and share with children that hard times would not last forever. There will be a time when such times will disappear. Hard times don’t last because life is always changing. Whenever you confront challenges, you should model resilience. Even if you are working hard, you should tell your children that it will get better with the passage of time. You should tell your children they together, you can overcome any challenge. If you are firm and from the start and have taught your children to be strong, they will never lose faith in you.

2. Practice optimism: You should be expressing faith in the fact that things will get better with time. If you have had to cancel a trip or anything like that, you should tell your children that you will be able to go the next year or in the coming year. Never be depressed in front of your children because if you do, they will also be depressed. If you ever want to be a financially independent and strong woman, you should change your outlook on life and start believing in positive ideas. In the journey of improving your financial condition, you will face several hurdles and it is important to be firm in overcoming them.

Improving your life needs you to start believing in positive aspects. Never let your children think that they will not be able to have a toy that they didn’t have today.

3. Practice connection: It is actually revealed by research that showing kindness and creating caring and honest bonds with your family seems to alleviate your depression and pulls you out of your depression and despair. Other than financially investing in your family, you should be more compassionate and caring towards your family. Most of us are not even honest with our families and we don’t share our feelings with our families in a verbal manner. Although we feel deep care for our parents, we never get to tell them.

You can grow closer to your family if you are honest with them. Voice your feelings and let them know that you care for them. It will help you in building closer relationships with your family.

4. Share bad news in a skillful manner: If there is some bad news about the financial condition then you have to be quite careful. Just as I have said before, you have to be optimistic and determine whether you should tell the news to your family or not. If you think that the news wouldn’t harm the family then you should tell it to your family. And if you believe that it would be wise to keep the news from them then it should be left unsaid.

If the bad news is important, make sure to be positive while telling your family about it. Make them believe that everything will turn to be right and even if things are not looking good right now, they will certainly improve in the coming time.

5. Fight constructively: If you ever have a fight in your family then you should make sure that you are not blaming others. There are times when we have a fight in the family and sometimes it has severe consequences as well. Most of the times, the topic over which grownups fight is concerned with bills or the financial condition. In such a fight, you should always remember your own part and rather than blaming others, you should focus on your own role in the fight and apologize for it. Believe me, if you ever begin to consider your mistakes before others’, you will be able to successfully resolve a fight without facing a serious consequence

6. Reach a mutual understanding: If you ever want to lead a healthy and successful relationship in which you have financial independence as well, you should reach a mutual understanding with your partner. In most of the relationships, women don’t get the financial grounds which she needs and in some relationships, men borrow money from women. You should make sure that your partner is aware of your mentality and he knows that you are a financially independent woman. What is important to consider here is that you should not be paying for the expenses of your partner. You should be willing to contribute to the expenses only if you are married. Otherwise, you should refrain from doing so because lending your hard-earned money is not wise. You should know that if you are paying for your partner’s expenses from the very start then this practice will continue even after you are married.

Thus, you should ensure that you are not paying for your partner. Gain a mutual understanding and pay for your own expenses.