Building a functional relationship is one of the most difficult challenges that men and women may ever have to face in their lives.  It’s also one of the only challenges that requires full collaboration by both parties.  Going to school, meeting your goals at work, and taking up a hobby are all individual tasks that you could accomplish alone, whether married or single.  Having a functional relationship is not an individual task.  

The more I talk to women who are actively dating, in relationships, or even married,