Loyalty and Relationships

At the end of the day, all you have is your desire to be with your companion and their respect and desire to be with you as well.

Rules are great and all, but if you're having deeper problems with your relationship, those rules will break fairly easily.

Constant reinforcement and growth is the only way through.  The rules aren't going to matter much in the end.  So if the relationship needs to be redefined, redefine it -- don't try to hold to rules that won't hold up.  At the end of the day, you need to be working on the core, and the rules are built upon the foundation of that core as a tool for guidance.  That is all they are.