What's the most important quality required for a sucessful relationship?
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Just what I saw from my parents, and my own experiences. You could also add in what I saw of friends' relationships, too.
From my experience, it seems that all the relationships that failed, failed because me, or the other, wanted to change something about the other, that in retrospect, seems rather trivial. How can you respect someone who is trying to change you? And it seems that the relationships that were successful (yes, I consider some relationships that ended to have been successful if they ended on a positive note) were successful because there was an understanding and acceptance of who the other person was, and who that person was okay.
We all make the choice to be with someone, despite the moments where it seemed like destiny, fate, "meant to be", etc. Some people do change dramatically over the course of a relationship, but for the most part, you really get a good grasp of who the other person is after a month or so. It just baffles my mind that often times, by my observations, the person you "knew" in the beginning was somehow good enough to fall in love with, yet that same person is somehow in need of change later on down the road.
Well, it seems that there are two issues. People change or people want to change the person they fell in love with.
Maybe they changed their minds about what they wanted.
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