A long healthy marriage is everyone’s happily ever after. But what makes a long lasting relationship? This paper will explain the three elements why people love each other until they part. The reader will be aware of the elements that play into an everlasting love. These elements include equality, reliability, and financial and economic security.
Discussion
Equality
Two factors play a role in equality; respect and communication. Equality is defined as being equal in rights, responsibility, and opportunity. Respect establishes equality by making the significant other an honorable partner. Communication avoids conflictions that can occur in equality.
Respect. includes values, self-esteem, boost of moral, boundaries, and satisfaction. Respect is a mutual boundary that treats the other spouse with worth and admiration. Our hearts with our spouses must find a “mutual respect…meaning that you view the opinions, wishes and values of your partner as worthy of serious consideration.” said the Center for Family change, a organization helping in bring couples together and establish …show more content…
includes commitment, character, dependability, responsibility and forgiveness. Trust is the confidence placed in that person to carry out any tasks or give out reliable explanation without question. Few couples have crumbled from the lack of trust, either to find out a lie later or not dependable to carry out tasks. The Schmitz proposed a broad interview for “over the past 29+ years with couples that had a successful marriage we are always struck by their undying trust in each other.”(Schmitz, The Foundation, NP). Not only has trust been a factor but behavior such as character helps support trust. The characteristics developed in the relationship “does matter, and character is about trust.”(Schmitz, Articles, NP). Dependability to information of the other spouse is another factor. This proves the character of the other person and what they will do with that