This past week I had the pleasure of hearing Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, Co-Founder and CEO of Apartment Therapy, speak at the Alt Design Summit in Salt Lake City. He said something that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. After teaching elementary students for 7 years, he found that his most successful students came from homes that were well cared for.
I have to believe this same principal applies to relationships as well. I think that one could argue that successful relationships likely reside in homes that are well cared for. Think about it – how many fights are caused because someone didn’t hang up a shirt or put away the dishes. Just last week, Vitaliy and I almost got in a quarrel over a missing notebook.
I’m writing this today to hold us accountable. We still have a lot of boxes to unpack and things to organize. Basically, we need some order in our new home. To make an investment in our relationship, we are committing to getting our place unpacked, organized and cleaned up.
I’m not saying that having a clean home defines a good relationship, but I am saying that it can definitely help a relationship. Creating a bit of order on the outside can help gain some order on the inside.
What do you think?
