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Hold Your Partner Accountable for Their Goals

Nisha Arya Ahmed
4 min readJan 8, 2024

and they will do the same for you.

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A quick backstory of my relationship. Me and my husband have been together for 4 years, married for 7 months. And I know my relationship is very much still new and life hasn’t ‘lifed’ us yet. But I want to share my experience on what has worked for us maybe there is a young couple out there that could benefit.

After the first year into the relationship, we saw things moving really fast. But we were both heading towards our own goals and dreams — but we knew we wanted to do it together.

He had his aspirations and I had mine.

I wanted nothing but success for him, and vice versa.

However, being two young people living in the rat race city of London, we easily got distracted, exhausted, and fed up. But we knew we always wanted more from life and we knew we were going to achieve it.

This mindset alone has not only helped our relationship become more solid, but it has also continuously reminded us that we are individuals with goals who are sharing a life — together.

So what did we start doing?

Meetings with Your Partner

Meetings with your spouse? ugh. Like we don’t have to deal with meetings every day at work. I get it…

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Nisha Arya Ahmed
Nisha Arya Ahmed

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