I thought it would be useful to provide some straight-from-the-heart advice about magnificent relationships. Sooner or later, almost everyone finds themselves in an intimate relationship. Too often, in my opinion, they end up being mediocre at best and painful at worse.

I imagine you know all too well what I mean. You were “there,” and you wish it could have been better than it was (or is right now). I am convinced that relationships of any quality are not mysteries. It takes specific ingredients to create a mediocre or a painful connection with another person. Sadly, most of us create serial relationships of minimal quality with maximum blame on our partner’s inadequacies and never seriously search for the real reasons that things went bad. We simplistically believe that a new partner will be the solution.

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