Successful Relationship patterns

Some of the patterns in couples who made it through lasting relationships
1. They held their relationship with each other more importantly and had boundaries with their respective families, and didn’t let their families influence them. They stayed united.
2. They were friends. Friendship was the core foundation of their relationship. They love to spend time with each other and share their secret successes and problems with each other without the fear of judgement.
3. They have been through crisis together, where  they were at crossroads and had second thoughts about the relationship, but they chose to stay together and work on the relationship to build trust and harmony
4. They let each other be themselves. There is mutual respect and admiration and no desire to change the other. Accepting each other as they are.
5. They had difficult conversations . They had open communication without the fear of judgement and respected each other’s perspectives.
6. They fought got on each other’s nerves, frustrated, also knew how to regulate their emotions, navigate conflict and bounce back, and move forward without grudges