In healthy relationships, there is permission for connection to be on a spectrum of capacity. Social media glorifies the 10/10 expressions between a couple, and quietly vilifies anything less. But for couples who truly want to thrive in the long term, maturing is realizing that there is enormous value in learning to feel nourished and loved in the 2/10 or 7/10 days as well. It’s the difference between using relationships to chase a high, avoiding the landscape of your own internal world, and all