This book provides detailed and comprehensible information based on psychological principles about the skills needed to shape and maintain a romantic relationship. It addresses the understanding of complex processes, interactions, and valuable shifts in perspective within the partnership: how to recreate positive experiences with a partner, how to find meaning in a relationship, why differing opinions can strengthen togetherness when mutual respect is present, and why turbulence or chaos in cohabitation should not be viewed as threatening scenarios of downfall, but rather as motivation for new experiences. Readers will learn how crises arise and can be managed, as well as why accurate self-assessment is just as crucial for the longevity of love as is the appropriate handling of even the most intense emotions. The author also demonstrates.