Are you in love? Are you involved in a relationship that makes you happy? Do you have someone in your life with whom you share the goings on of your day, the funny story you heard at work, or the sad movie on TV? If you do, do you value them?

Our lives can sometimes be so bombarded with work and deadlines and children and family and three million other stressful things that make us so crazy, we sometimes forget that we have someone who we love, but simply don’t have the time to speak to or to be with, or even to think about.

I’ll give you an example; for those of you who are not single, pick a day that you remember being a horrible day. A day where everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Your boss was constantly over your shoulder, your family was mad at you, your clients, co-workers or customers were furious with you. And right in the middle of all that chaos, you find out that the love of your life is on the phone and that he or she just called you to say hello. In the zero-point-six seconds that you have to breathe, you pick up the telephone and say, "Not now, I’ll speak to you later." and hang-up the phone. How do you think the other half of you, on the other end of the line, felt?

Relationships can be something that is an escape route for those involved, a nexus, if you will, something that allows two people to spend time together away from everything and everyone. As if it was just the two of you, and nothing else existed. Of course, at some point, reality will set in, and that time you spent together will be over. But what many people don’t do is cherish and value the time that they have together. Many couples spend the time they do have with each other arguing about the time they’re apart. Not only is that ridiculous, but it’s doing nothing but tearing them apart.

Here’s your weekly homework, go call your significant other, whomever that may be. Tell them that, despite your busy day at work, you were thinking about them and it made you smile. Let them know how much you value your relationship and that you cherish every moment the two of you have spent together.

Then tonight – start making new memories.