Whether you are married or single, relationships take work. The secret to making a relationship last isn’t rocket science, but it can tend to get lost on people as they pursue the barrage of activities in daily life. Jobs, families, kids, school, financial pressures, social pressures etc can all take their toll and cause us to lose sight of what it really takes on a regular basis to making a relationship last.

Making a relationship last involves establishing and continuing to enrich and nurture the following:

Share a common goal with each other – Couples who are working towards something together share that dream, and it supports everything they do. Also, working on a common goal together makes it a lot more likely to achieve.Good sexual chemistry – You had it when you first got together and you may still have it now. But it can diminish over time and you have to search for new ways to reignite the passion and the emotion that drew you together.Learn the “art” of fighting – Better communication often just means better fighting. I would argue that you don’t have to “fight” at all. There is a right way and a wrong way.Be best friends – Might sound corny but it’s what will sustain you long term. True friends have trust, intimacy and can withstand conflicts, no matter what they may be.Make the relationship your #1 priority – Treat your relationship as a third person separate from the two of you. It then becomes less about “me” and more about “we.”Be able to weather life’s tough challenges – Couples who are in it for the long haul will be tested at some point. When the two of you are hit with “the big one” how will you respond?Balance your time together and apart – It is vital that you achieve a healthy balance in your time with each other and your time pursuing your own separate interests.There you have it. Sounds easy right? Obviously not, so how do you actually make these things happen in your own relationship?

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