Maintaining healthy relationships requires sincere effort. The constant push and pull of different personal preferences naturally creates occasional tension. Each person must find a comfortable path that allows for compromise, while simultaneously honoring our own true desires. Different styles, opinions and experiences create opportunities for establishing boundaries, improving communication skills and learning how to let the unimportant things go. Relationships are ideal vehicles for personal evolution. Couples who don’t address issues are doomed to endure unpleasant truces or even failure. Relationships of those who do the work become perfect laboratories for…

Rich, satisfying growth.

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