5 Habits to Stay Together: Pray, Play, Serve, Don’t Keep Score, Keep Kissing

Agnes, speaking as a relationship coach, walks Ryan through five habits that help couples stay together: praying or meditating together, playing together while knowing your limits with alcohol, serving each other with small acts, not keeping score, and a daily kiss. They discuss how couples of different faiths can pray together, why to leave a partner's past alone, and the value of small acts of service.

Takeaways

• Couples can pray, meditate or reflect on shared goals together even when they come from different faiths.
• Small daily acts of service, like laying out an outfit, reminding a partner about medication or holding hands on a walk, matter more than grand gestures.
• Do not keep score of old arguments, and expect to have some of the same conversations again over the years.

Chapters

• 0:00 Five topics on how couples stay together
• 1:01 Setup: why love alone is not enough
• 4:52 Tip one: pray together
• 12:41 Tip two: play together and know your limits
• 16:26 Tip three: serve each other
• 22:53 Tip four: do not keep score
• 30:48 Tip five: keep kissing
• 34:24 Wrap-up and Agnes's services

Conversation and opinion, not medical, legal, tax or financial advice.