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The best relationships continue to grow. But if you want them flourish, like a gardener you must apply attention, time, and effort.
More specifically, for a relationship to grow and improve, you must cultivate eight attributes: love, trust, honesty, caring, support, attentiveness, authenticity, and understanding.
Life is full of expectations, ones we have for ourselves and ones other people have for us. How do you respond to expectations? Do you fulfill them, or resist them? When, and why?
Gretchen Rubin has developed The Four Tendencies, a simple yet powerful personality test based on expectations. What are the Four Tendencies? What does it mean to be each tendency? We’ll explain it all here.
What is stonewalling in marriage? How does stonewalling happen by boyfriends, husbands, wives, and girlfriends?
Learn why stonewalling happens, examples, and how to deal with it.
Marital success isn’t determined by how often a couple sleeps together, or opinions on how to raise children, or how each person handles finances–it’s determined by the skill with which a couple discusses disagreements in those categories. Agreeing on how to disagree is the key to a successful marriage.