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Building a relationship is like building your dream house. It begins as a stirring of emotion and a grand vision. Then you begin laying the foundation, erecting the beams, placing the bricks, painting the walls, and furnishing the interior For a few years, your home is a shiny, clean, strong and comfortable abode.

But then, due to neglect and lack of maintenance, the paint starts to peel, the windows begin to crack, and little holes begin to appear in the walls and roof. At its core, you still have a great home in a beautiful setbng. But the deterioration in the structure of your house is slowly marring its comfort and beauty. Passers-by can soon see the wear-and-tear of the years and the decline of neglect.

Your relationship, like a house, needs constant care and maintenance. Otherwise, little holes in the nooks and crannies will gradually grow into gaping cavities that may be difficult to repair Rust will begin to eat into the pipes, causing them to leak, destroying the wood.

The truth is that whether you’re talking about a house or a relationship, if there are any “holes” or flaws in them, they didn’t just show up overnight. They are there because you didn’t notice them and fix them right away before they grew bigger

Now, you could move to another house but it wouldn’t be long before problems start showing up in your new house if you don’t do a better job of maintaining it. It’s the same with your relationships. So how can you care for and maintain your relationship?

Firstly, you have to give the relationship your attention. Sounds logical, right? But the fact is, many people get into a relationship and then put it on auto-pilot. Then months or years later, they wonder what happened.

If you haven’t planned a date together in a while, take some time right now and plan some type of get-away even if it’s just for an hour at your favourite restaurant or a walk in a park alone together. Make some time for the two of you to be together and to enjoy each other.

Make a plan to talk every day (or at least on a regular basis) about what really matters to the two of you. This can simply mean taking a few moments to tell each other what you appreciate about the other person. Give compliments generously. And don’t let the playfulness and humour out of your relationship.

Also, whenever something comes up between you and your partner, don’t let it linger and become an even bigger issue. Tackle the monsters in the relationship when they’re small and they won’t grow up to be large enough to devour your relati onship.

Sold - my third and last Mazda 6/626. I really like the design and I had 3 new cars of this brand but I will never buy a Mazda again! I was dissatisfied with this car and not very satisfied with my Mazda 626 GF before this one... the best was the first one (626 GE).

These cars are quite inexpensive in buy but really expensive in repairs. And this car here needed a new automatic gearbox shortly after expiration of guarantee period (3 1/2 years/107.000km). An extremely expensive repair because Mazda didn't offer recon gearboxes and no fairness! It took more than one month to get my car back from repairs...

The car is now 4 1/2 years old (121.000 km) and its underbody and its exhaust is rusted, the rear-wheel brake is broken (5 months and 7.000 km after the last service). I'm quite careful with my cars... I've done every service in time and with all the necessary repairs I've spent some thousands of Euros in this car!

I know that many Mazda owners are really content with Mazda company and these cars - I'm not! If you own a Mazda, I'm really interested in your experiences!

My next car? Not sure about this! What do you drive and how content are you with your car?
Meanwhile my Dad lets me drive his Volkswagen Passat... a really reliable car!

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Verkauft und ja, nie wieder Mazda! Drei Mazda-Neuwagen hatte ich und der hier ist mit Sicherheit der Letzte.

So schon der Wagen vom Design her - zumindest fur mich - ist, so sehr hat er mich auch geargert... Ein halbes Jahr nach Garantieablauf ging das Automatikgetriebe kaputt. Eine extrem teure Reparatur, insbesondere weil von Mazda auch kein Austauschgetriebe angeboten wurde. Obwohl ich langjahriger Mazda-Kunde bin/war (immerhin uber 15 Jahre) gab es keine Kulanz. Obwohl dieser Wagen punktlich scheckheftgepflegt wurde, kamen immer wieder au?erplanma?ige Reparaturen hinzu. Viel Geld hat dieser Wagen in nur 4,5 Jahren verschlungen...

Ich wei?, dass Mazda immer wieder in der Pannenstatistik und Kundenzufriedenheit mit an der Spitze steht... ich hatte mit meinen Mazdas (auch die Vorganger hatten ihre Mucken) kein Gluck. Falls Ihr selbst einen Mazda habt/hattet... wurde mich freuen, von Euren Erfahrungen zu lesen!

Naja, das Thema ist jetzt fur mich abgeschlossen. Der nachste Wagen? Noch keine Ahnung... in der Zwischenzeit darf ich den Volkswagen Passat meines Vaters fahren... ein sehr zuverlassiges Auto :-)