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100 Couples Share Their Secrets to a Successful Relationship
Partners who avoid conflict don’t understand each other’s priorities, values, or struggles. Every couple fights—or should. Whatever you and your partner fight about, you’re probably not alone.
Jay Shetty • 8 Rules of Love: The Sunday Times bestsellling guide on how to find lasting love and enjoy healthy relationships, from the author of Think Like A Monk
In most love relationships, that which one wants from the other is mostly ego approval. That is why the majority of people are not happily married. They’re picking at each other most of the time, wanting ego approval. That makes for a bad marriage. What makes for a successful marriage? Two things – having interests in common and friendship.
Yuri Spilny • Freedom Technique: Path to Awareness and Love with Autobiography by Lester Levenson
Fragile couples tend, paradoxically, to be very hopeful about love. They associate happiness with conflict-free unions. They do not expect, once they have found the person they unwisely see as The One, ever to need to squabble, storm out of a room or feel unhappy for the afternoon. When trouble emerges, as it inevitably does, they do not greet it a
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
‘Right. Here are some survival tools: The enemy of love is impatience and eye rolling. Even gentle mockery is corrosive. Learn how to defuse the other’s ticking bomb. Notice what the beginning of a negative spiral looks like. Prioritise snoring remedies. Don’t exaggerate hurt feelings. Have more morning sex than night sex. Identify which of your pa
... See moreSteve Toltz • Here Goes Nothing
