There are great and lasting truths about relationships. These work for marriage or lasting romantic partnerships, but also for family and business relationships.

No one gets them right all the time, but working on them certainly increases the odds of successful relationships and lifelong happiness.

1a. A Buckingham Rule: expect the best, and attribute the most positive motives and intentions.

1b. Corollary: understand the way humans tend fill information gaps with to negatives, created from their own negative baggage.

Great relationships last – often a lifetime