Sternberg’s Rules for a Successful Partnership

1. Don’t take the relationship for granted.
2. Make the relationship your first priority.
3. Actively seek to meet each other’s needs.
4. Know when and when not to change in response to the other.
5. Value yourself.
6. Love each other, not the idealization of each other.
7. Tolerate what you cannot change.
8. Be open with each other.
9. Make good times together and grow through bad ones.
10. Treat the other as you want to be treated.

From: Dr. Robert Sternberg, Cornell University