Course Overview

A long-lasting healthy relationship requires a dose of love and happiness. Enduring love in a relationship is not solely based on romance and emotions; and it is based on commitment & preservation. It helps the couple to stick with each other through thick and thin. 

But what are the keys to creating an enduring love relationship? What makes a relationship last longer? You will get answers to these questions and many more in this course. 

So, let's dive right in! 

Commitment

"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean Paul Sartre

The commitment you make to your partner to be their other half in life is a huge one. There’s a goal of permanence and solidity between you when you announce commitment in a relationship.

You have chosen your person, and they are choosing you back.

Making promises and taking vows are part of this arrangement. You decide to give yourself wholly to someone else with the intention of staying together forever; then life happens, things get hard, you struggle, you fight, and you may want to give up and split up.

Thinking this is an easy way out is a mistake. You’ll hear a lot about “the old days” when people stayed together no matter what and enjoyed lasting commitment in a relationship.

A lot of couples worked it out, figured out a way to fix their problems and move forward, and it also means that there were toxic and abusive relationships where partners were trapped and felt like they had no option but to stay with their partner.

Some couples stay together for the sake of the children, for the sake of society, for economic reasons, or the lack of other viable options. But there shouldn’t be any reason other than love and commitment.

To build that kind of relationship, you need to learn why commitment is so important and what it actually means to commit to a person for life.

Compassion

Having compassion for your spouse makes it easy to handle the ups and downs of your marriage. Sometimes we lose compassion for people with whom we are the closest but it’s necessary to have strong feelings of compassion for love to endure. Such compassion requires acceptance of your spouse for both their strengths and weaknesses. 

Remember to show your spouse that you care about how they feel and support them through the ups and downs of life. As you maintain compassion for your spouse also remember to have self-compassion.

Intimacy

Having compassion for your spouse makes it easy to handle the ups and downs of your marriage. Sometimes we lose compassion for people with whom we are the closest but it’s necessary to have strong feelings of compassion for love to endure. Such compassion requires acceptance of your spouse for both their strengths and weaknesses. 

Remember to show your spouse that you care about how they feel and support them through the ups and downs of life. As you maintain compassion for your spouse also remember to have self-compassion.