Quite funny, I think it was on the day that I re-activated this blog and wrote about Learning to communicate.. and the newspaper of the day wrote about the same thing! It was about a married couple and how to keep the relationship good.. I think the title was "Opening the dead ends of your relationships" Here's the link , it's in Finnish though. Some good advice on that article, on how to take care of your relationship:
Be open.
Have courage to bring up difficult things.
Learn to communicate (to express your emotions without blaming the other person).
Argue constructively, so that your aim is to find solutions to your problems.
Listen to your spouse.
Forgive.
Take time to evaluate problems in your relationship at least couple of times a year.
IT also claimed that"Arguing is not a bad thing" while avoiding to deal with issues and talk about them is. and "Don't give up".
:)
