Love & Sex

The key to success for a successful relationship:

doing boring things together

If you want to keep your current flame with you for as long as possible and absolutely do not want to think about a break-up: then especially do nothing.

Because the more boring you are, the higher your chances of success relation are. Being lazy and still achieving a lot, that sounds like music to the ears, yes. Mark Manson, author of the worldwide hit ‘The subtle art of not giving a f*ck’, knows it well. Because the less you both do in the relationship and the more boring you are, the more likely it is that you will stay together, says the expert. A good relationship is not about the exciting weekends away, the trendy drinks on the weekend, or those dozens of dinners per month, no, if you really fit well together, then you have an incredibly good time just sitting on the couch. If you take naps together. Having nothing to chat about. Lying horizontally watching the day drift by.

Why is this so good for your love life? You have a lot less to bicker about. No grumbling about one person's drunken state, the flirt moves of the other, the being home later than promised issues. No scattered dishes. No tears when an appointment is forgotten again. No, there is peace and tranquility in your home. You have no appointments.

And this is precisely something we often forget nowadays. It always has to be more, it can always be better, and it's only really cool if we are busy and busy and even busier. Now scientists say: boring needs to become cool again. It's time for that. Otherwise, every relationship will fail sooner or later.

So hop, cancel those parties, double dates with friend 92, and Christmas drinks, and just snuggle up on the couch with your partner. Are you guaranteed to still be together in 2018? watch.

FACTS

  • Dutch people watch an average of 3 hours of television per day. In the end, that amounts to 1.5 years of your life.
  • 48 percent of women have said ‘I love you’ at some point, while they didn't mean it.
  • If you wait until you are 23 for a serious relationship, your marriage is more likely to succeed.