Psychology Today | 06.01.2026 23:35
We are conditioned to think that strong relationships mean deep conversations, perfect alignment in values, non-stop meaningful experiences, and acing all compatibility tests that claim to predict love beyond the shadow of a doubt. These factors, of course, matter in the grand scheme of things. But most research about relationships points to something much simpler and more comforting than that: connection is not made in the big moments.
