What Are Some of the Practices That Support Sustaining Love?

"I get into relationships with people that I'm actually not compatible with and then I work very hard to sustain that relationship," she says. "Just because you're good at it in one area ... doesn't always mean you know how to do it in every area." She asks: What are the practices that support sustaining love regardless of the nature of the relationship? 'What are some of the lessons that we can learn from the way that we love and are loved on by our friends'