Simple Advice For A Successful Relationship

Jamie Sheffield
5 min readMar 30, 2022

It occurred to me the other day that my wife and I have been married for almost 25 years. I feel as though keeping a relationship intact, growing, friendly, and functional for all of that time is noteworthy, and worthy of some reflection.

We were friends before we fell in love, but that’s not the secret I’m going to share with you; lots of people I was friends with 25 years ago, some from even five years ago, are in my relationship rearview.

I think the key to our success lies at the intersection of two sayings we’ve all heard a…

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Jamie Sheffield

Jamie Sheffield is a writer and teacher. His books can be found at Amazon, your local bookstore, or library; his website is WWW.jamiesheffield.com