When all else fails…
- Agree to disagree
- Accept and work with the polarities*
- Avoid repeating the mistakes of the past
- Maintain integrity and congruency
- Work hard to maintain a satisfying relationship
- Maintain and nurture “the value set”
- Unconditional positive regard for the other
- Commitment to the relationship
- “Prizing the differences” between us as differing gifts yet…
- Maintaining your own congruence
*Some continuous matters are not problems to be solved but polarities to be managed AKA not “either-or” but “both-and”