Trying to keep up with the pace of life, you often feel you have no choice but to attend to the biggest challenge in front of you and leave the relationship work for later. This is a good short-term strategy, but it will erode and eventually destroy the relationship by making your partner feel like they are not a priority in your life.

Beginning this work is the first step to making your relationship a priority; and shifting your attention to the broad strokes and finer details of your partnership will cultivate better habits of attention, awareness, and alignment of actions with your intentions for it. In other words, you will practice cherishing your relationship and rebuild the trust between you again.