Couples Advice

A significant age difference between partners can be a wonderful inspiration for growth, stretching each person's ability to love and understand the other, or it can be the cause of consistent tension and unhappiness that ultimately make staying together impossible.

The more you have in common and the more committed you are to working on the relationship, the better your chances for survival.

Trying to accept something you aren't comfortable with in your partner will only hurt that person more in the end, when your true feelings emerge.

Couples who share similar values have a much greater chance of creating a happy, harmonious, and lasting relationship.

A long-distance romance makes it easy for you to think the relationship is much better than it is, because you don't spend consistent quality time together.

The goal of two lovers in a "normal" relationshp should be to become more loving and intimate with one another.

The goal of two long-distance lovers becomes to see one another again.

Honesty, integrity, and trustworthiness are essential ingredients for a healthy relationship.

When your partner is consistently honest with you, you will naturally trust them.

Your partner can only love you as much as they love themselves.

The more you love yourself, the harder it will be for you to abuse yourself physically or emotionally.

The more you love yourself, the less you'll allow others to mistreat you.

Sexual chemistry needs to exist in some form in order to distinguish your relationship from a friendship.

You and your partner need three ingredients to make your relationship work:

• Chemistry
• Compatibility
• Commitment

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because younow experience ownership of that relationship.