The Five Habits Of Highly Happy Couples

Michael Sands
6 min readDec 29, 2023

Even if you were lucky enough to have won the birth lottery and enjoyed supportive, engaged parents, that’s no guarantee that your intimate relationships would be easy. Unfortunately, most of what we learn comes from failure. I have had the privilege, after 25 years in private practice as a couples counselor, to see that highly happy couples have much in common in how they manage their reationships.

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Michael Sands

Challenger of assumptions. People worker. Recovering nihilist.