True Partnership

This is a useful note for those who are in a relationship, deep friendships or even just living with a roomate.....

[True partners are those who] have balanced their needs and wants and [have] given just a little more weight to the other’s happiness, and that is doing your share and some more.
In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, and frankly, worth discovering over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. “Deserves” is not the point. “Fair” is not the point. “Owes” is not the point.
The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is , in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.

(By: Ann Bloom)