All partnerships, and all relationships for that matter, go through five predictable stages. Knowing these stages is like having a map that will help you to accurately assess where you are in your partnerships, see where you have been and where you can go.

How to communicate clearly and effectively, without mixed messages and emotional incongruence.

People yearn for relationships they can trust and want to be able to depend on people. Learn how to make agreements that are characterized by ease, clarity and harmonious cooperation in your relationships.

Whether a relationship is healthy or unhealthy depends not so much on the number of conflicts between participants, but on how the conflicts are resolved.

A successful relationship is composed of two individuals — each with a clearly defined sense of her or his own identity, and healthy boundaries.