To succeed in your relationship you have to be ready to work on your relationship, making sacrifices where appropriate and been there in order to build a sustainable relationship. You also need to be ready to compromise your time and resources sometimes to make sure that you attend to the need of your partner and vice versa .All this efforts, sacrifices, compromises , understanding ,communications helps to build serious trust and confidence in your relationship and makes it to last long.

All these principles are applicable to both partners in a relationship for a relationship to succeed , ie for both the man and the woman and where one is trying all his or her best to work or build a relationship and the other party is not forth coming, one may feel cheated and it may affect the outcome of the relationship , hence all partners must always be ready to make efforts at ensuring that their relationships works by sorting out issues and differences at the communication , compatibility and understanding stages
You need all this virtues, principle and keys to be in long lasting relationship, in order to make it work and last long .

You are expected to love everyone around you with this same God kind of love , which is unconditional expecting nothing and you need to extend this kind of love to everyone that comes your way ,in that way when you enter into a relationship , you will be in a better position to give the god kind of love to the person that you are courting for greater relationship and marriage.

Before you get yourself involve into any relationship, you need to ensure that before you court or date anyone , it should be someone that you could consider marrying tomorrow , which is one of your major essence of going into the relationship in the first place believing God that if everything works out well , you will definitely marry the person.

Anyone that is not ready to encourage you in the Christian faith and in the things of the lord, you should have a second thought about your relationship with the person as nothing in the world should make you to compromise your Christian faith for whatever reason or person.