Mutual: attraction, empathy, self-awareness, patience, imagination, humor, humility, effort, purpose, variety, re-kindling, (reminding yourselves about all of the above and doing it all over and over again), and history.
I'll pause there, because I know I'll be slapping myself on the forehead saying, Damn, I should have said...!
It ain't easy, but it's definitely worth it. The part about history; that's the glue that some-day begins to hold it together, but failing to pay attention to all of those details can still stress it out.
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