Separateness and Togetherness

  • Shows respect in public, and when alone with others, doesn't say, do, or behave any differently than if partner was there.

  • Responsibility, accountability and empathy

  • Flexibility and adaptability (as the seasons so to speak, change, can you transition and ebb and flow)

  • Honoring original contracts, and revisiting them if needed.

  • Stay connected.

  • They greet each other kindly and lovingly

  • hugs

  • Choose to love.

  • meals together

  • Flooding of positive moments

  • never threaten leaving

  • forgiveness

  • eye contact

  • turn towards one another

  • work on themselves with the purpose of showing up better

  • communication is priority

  • take time outs together - dates, vacations

  • Practice the “medicines”

  • They accept one another for who they are.


INVENTORY

Take inventory on these relationship habits and honor yourself and your relationship by acknowledging where you are doing well! Then on the habits that could be worked on, write out your ideas of how they can be improved upon.