A short YouTube video by Nick Perry giving four concise rules for sustaining a long-term, happy relationship: (1) don't rush intimacy, (2) keep your own hobbies/friends/goals, (3) love partners as they are (not who they might become), and (4) have honest conversations about values, commitments, and boundaries.
10 years of dating and marriage in under 30 seconds. Number one, don't rush the intimacy. High quality relationships take time. Number two, don't drop your entire life for them. Keep your hobbies, your friends and your goals. It's what keeps you an interesting person. Number three, don't fall in love with who they can become. Fall in love with who they are. Number four, don't avoid the uncomfortable conversations. If you're afraid to talk about values, commitments and boundaries, then you're building romance on fantasies and not honesty.
