Original article at the Huffington Post – Marriage Secrets Of Highly Successful Couples
- Successful couples enjoy each other.
- Successful couples fight skillfully.
- Successful couples seek and offer forgiveness. Four stages for arrival at complete forgiveness:
- Forgo: Take a break from thinking about the person or event for a while.
- Forebear: Abstain from punishing, neither thinking about it nor acting on (the offense) in small or large ways. Give a bit of grace to the situation.
- Forget: Refuse to dwell; let go and loosen one’s hold, particularly on memory. To forget is an active — not passive — endeavor.
- Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate.
- Successful couples are in it for the long haul.
- Successful couples are positive about each other.
- Successful couples learn and grow together.
- Successful couples never stop dating.
- Successful couples bring each other joy.
- Successful couples adhere to the 60/40 rule.
- Successful couples have shared values.
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