Hi Jamie: The best advice I’ve gotten about relationships is from the following books which I very much recommend.

• How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
• The Languages of Love
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

As a practice I might also recommend ballroom dance lessons as it requires each person in a partnership to take responsibility for creating space for the partner and at the same time filling space.

Its is said that an aspect of Relationships is to act as the crucible in which we discover ourselves. What this means is that we are going to step on our ‘ghosts.’ (subconscious issues that need healing). One thing ‘ghosts’ love to do is play with other peoples ‘ghosts’. The key to working through these issues, ‘having the ‘ghosts’ move on into the light, is to make them conscious.  Which is where the book recommendations come in.

Wishing you the best