Sternberg’s Rules for a Successful Partnership
- Don’t take the relationship for granted.
- Make the relationship your first priority.
- Actively seek to meet each other’s needs.
- Know when and when not to change in response to the other.
- Value yourself.
- Love each other, not the idealization of each other.
- Tolerate what you cannot change.
- Be open with each other.
- Make good times together and grow through bad ones.
- Treat the other as you want to be treated.
From: Dr. Robert Sternberg, Cornell University