Achieved 30% More Appreciation and Practical Strategies for Relationship Optimization

To be around people who you're in alignment with, great people, people that you can feel a sense of trust with, that you can then share and actually appreciate and respect. Strategies to get better and even higher up in a relationship that started out very, very great and still is, but you can always take it to the next level. We didn't come here to solve a problem. We didn't come here to, you know, find our inner core. We've been together a lifetime, a couple, depending on how you count them. And what we found here was a safe place to explore other people's relationships. It made us appreciate ours more. And it was a place to have amazing conversations, to talk about things that mattered, and to be with other successful couples. It gets so tiring to be around people that don't like each other, Couples that are together for the wrong reasons. You can see it. Everyone here was together for the right reasons. They wanted to be partners with each other. They were together in every sense and grew deeper over the course of the couple of days. Well, when I think about the really big takeaway of the last few days, the biggest is, and I didn't even think this was possible, yet another 20 or 30% additional appreciation. What a magnificent woman is sitting next to me and how special and how blessed I am that she's in my life. So that's number 1. And then number two are really practical strategies for how we can even optimize our relationship more in terms of depth of relationship, in terms of using free time as best as humanly possible. And the third thing I would say is how to even connect more and hearing it all from people that we really respect. You know, the whole thing was a surprise for me. I'm not a relationship counselor, masterminder, talk about our relationship kind of person. So really, I came in with no expectations. I really didn't know where this was going to go, you know. So for me, the whole revelation of watching these other couples, some who fought through some pretty heavy stuff, was really rather amazing. And as Richard said earlier, it really made me appreciate him as a person. Our relationship and all that we've built over the years, it was a little reinforcing of our relationship, but also of what could be in the future. The summit of love is completely unique. I wear my heart on my sleeve, literally and figuratively. And to come somewhere where I feel safe and where I feel I'm around people who can make my life better and my relationship better is incredibly special. For me, the summit of love was really a once in a lifetime opportunity to connect with Richard on a deeper level. It's not something that we do. We don't. We haven't had. We haven't had, like, couples counseling or resolution of disputes or really anything like that. But the Summit of Love really showed us how other couples work through issues and how other couples have developed really unique tools to help each other. It's a funny thing. We had a dinner party not so long ago, and at the end, I said to Lisa, would it be okay if we just have people over that actually like each other? And I came to realize, and both of us did. That's pretty rare. And then to add into that people who are in a happy relationship and have the desire, the actual desire and the time and the commitment to take it to the next level and share all of what they've learned and learn all of what we know, that's totally unique.