If you are in (or even want to be in) a long-term relationship , I think it’s probably safe to assume you’d ideally like it to be a happy one. But as anyone who has ever been in a relationship knows, staying happy in one—especially over a long period of time—is often easier said than done.

Early on in our love lives, we tend to assume that finding love and establishing a happy, secure relationship is the hard part. This is not to say it’s not—trust me, as a single dater myself, I am sympathetic to the plight of those weathering the modern dating landscape ! But while it’s only natural that exhausted daters would see finding and settling into a steady, stable relationship as a finish line that guarantees a happily ever after, the potentially annoying truth is that maintaining that

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