The Importance of Future

When relationship has a successful history, some may imagine that the work has already been accomplished. But that is no more true than imagining that successful gardeners can skip watering and fertilizing for the year because of their good track record. The fact that you have experience and confidence in your relationship means that you know what needs to be done. It does not mean that you can ignore things that needs to be done because you've done them before. The task of a successful relationship never ends because the point of a relationship is to build toward the future, not the past.

Satisfaction in a relationship is 8 times more reliant on recent feelings and the ability to perceive improvements than it is based on the history of the realtionship.