Kindling

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Relationships Take Work

traditional wisdom

The relationships that last are rarely the ones that felt effortless. They are the ones in which people kept showing up—listening, forgiving, adjusting, telling the truth, and choosing the other again. Intensity can start a connection. Character sustains it.

How you’d preach it

Good relationships are not maintained by intensity alone but by steady, ordinary investment.

  • Love
  • Perseverance
  • Presence

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