That might be crushing in some relationships, but I guess we’ve approached our relationship with the need to be flexible because you don’t know what’s going to happen.
So my advice for today when it comes to long-term relationships is based on our experiences. The advice is to not keep score in a relationship. Or if you can’t help yourself from keeping score, at least don’t make decisions or take actions within the relationship based on what you think the score is.
Because the score is always subject to interpretation and change.
And even if you don’t like the score in a relationship you want to last, you have to remember: You’re on the same team. That means you own both sides of the score - individually and together.
That’s my advice for today for creating and sustaining long-term relationships. - Mike Brown