Dating Tip: Tell your partner that you appreciate them. One of the secrets to a long, fulfilling relationship is to actively appreciate your partner.

Dating Tip: Turn your phones off sometimes when you’re around each other. Connect with your partner instead of spending time on your phone.

Dating Tip: Solidify your friendship. Become more securely attached, or connected, to your partner by developing a deeper friendship.

Dating Tip: If you want to do one thing to improve your relationship almost instantly, start saying ‘Thank you’ more. People love to feel appreciated.

Dating Tip: Get creative about the time you spend together. Surprise your partner every now and then.

Dating Tip: Make sure you’re getting enough ‘you’ time. Needing space from your partner is not a bad thing.

Dating Tip: Make your apology count. It’s well understood that apologising is a good thing, but it only makes a real impact when you mean it.

Dating Tip: Seek to understand, not necessarily agree. Conversations turn to arguments when we’re invested in hearing our partner admit that we’re right.

Dating Tip: Do the things you did in the first few months you were dating. As time goes on, people tend to get lazy and neglect the relationship.

Dating Tip: Ask for what you want. Over time, we assume that our partner knows us so well that we don’t need to ask for what we want.