Relationship Inventory Part 2: List your top 10 priorities in life. Mark each with a YES or NO in regard to whether or not your partner can help you fulfill them.
1. Travel — NO
2. Home — NO
3. Generosity — NO
4. Sex — NO
5. Social — NO
6. Conversation — NO
7. Bedtime Compatibility — NO
8. Romance — YES
9. Compliments — YES
10. Friendship — YES
In the case of this woman, the man she was seeing could only enhance three of her ten life priorities. And on the flip side, she was easily able to find seven priorities he would actually make more difficult or her to achieve.
Once the work of compiling these two lists is done, review the data you’ve collected to answer the ultimate question of this exercise:
“Is this person going to make my life better?”
As you can see, the not-so-great news for the woman in this same sample is that the negatives far outweigh the positive in her particular situation, but the good news is that armed with this information, she could now pinpoint the source of her frustrations and disappointments within the relationship.
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