I treat my relationship with the care and attention it deserves.

Cars get serviced before the noise starts. Relationships tend to get serviced afterwards.

Attention is the cheaper of the two currencies and the one people ration hardest. It isn't the weekend away; it is the ten minutes with the phone in another room and a real question asked out loud.

A relationship earns care the way anything does, by holding up the rest of your life while you are busy with the rest of your life. The bill for ignoring that arrives late and all at once.

Pick the smallest maintenance job you have been postponing and do that one this week.