When a relationship ends, you want to be able to look back on the good things you did for the other person. Those feel really good.

"The main feature of relationships is that they end. So, keeping in mind the fact that the relationship will end, what do you want to be able to look back on? Not so much the good times you had together, but the good things you did for the other person. Those feel really good.

As the Buddha said, if you have a really good relationship that you want to continue in the next lifetime, make sure that you both observe the precepts together."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "The Buddha's Relationship Advice"

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