Find the right partner, but recognize no partner will be perfect as such. Be grateful for them, communicate, be honest with yourself and them. A lot of people

Find the right partner, but recognize no partner will be perfect as such. Be grateful for them, communicate, be honest with yourself and them. A lot of people are saying this trend is about kids, and it might be. But at least in my experience there's maybe something else too, something about the internal relationship dynamics of trust and expectation. Early on I think there's a lot in a relationship based on expectations, and a certain distrust or something, even if you aren't aware of it. As the relationship continues, your expectations are not met in some ways, which interacts with distrust to cause issues. But then at some point those trust issues resolve, and you learn your positive expectations weren't too far off the mark either. Every relationship is different. I'm not sure how you could prepare except to be patient, open, and empathetic.