RELATE: Essential ingredients for a long term and satisfying relationship

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Essential ingredients for a long term and satisfying relationship

* Good problem solving, negotiating and coping skills.
* Trust in each other (including being faithful, behaving with integrity and feeling safe).
* Commitment to the relationship.
* Open, honest and good communication.
* Enjoy spending time together, have fun together, laugh together – yet appreciate some space for separate activities.
* Shared interests and activities – similar views on what is important in life.
* Consideration, mutual appreciation– easy give and take.
* Deep and abiding love for one another, enriched by being friends and lovers, continue to find each other attractive, appealing, desirable and interesting.

Taken from information sheet “Essential ingredients for long term satisfying relationships” – Relationships Australia"

posted by Robert Heard at 9:09 AM