To learn more about this... I want to start a collection do's and dont's here.

Do you have anything important to tell about relationships and what to do?

Don't forget to say thankyou for things. Everyone always wants to be appreciated, even for the little things. Especially for the little things.

That's a good one.

How is one supposed to know if said rules apply to their gender?

Well, I guess if you think it's gender specific, then you can say so.

I think what Callipygic is important for everyone. Being taken for granted is such a bitch .

How about - be willing to make sacrifices, but don't do it so much that you make a martyr out of yourself and feel resentful. Ensuring there are boundaries for the other in the relationship is good, but you should also set boundaries for yourself...or something like that.

Good one.

And for the sake of this thread, i will not post anything of mine.

For some reason I feel like having a list of "do's and don't's" is unnecessary...

If you do something it has to come from your own decision to do so and it should make you happy to do or say whatever it is to your partner. I wouldn't feel comfortable having any kind of list of things that are required if I am in a relationship because eventually instead of enjoying my relationship, it'll end up feeling like nothing more than a series of chores.

26 things a perfect guy should do

1. Know how to make you smile when you are down.
2. Try to secretly smell your hair, but you always notice.
3. Stick up for you, but still respects your independence.
4. Give you the remote control during the game.
5. Come up behind you and put hisarmsaround you.
6. Play with your hair.
7. His handsalways find yours.
8. Be cutewhen he really wants something.
9. Offer you plenty of massages.
10. Dancewith you, even if he feels like a dork.
11. Never run out of love.
12. Be funny, but know how to be serious.
13. Realize he's being funny when he needsto be serious.
14. Be patient when you take forever to get ready.
15. React so cutely when you hit him and it actuallyhurts.
16. Smilea lot.
17. Plans a romantic date full of cheesy things he wouldn't normally like to do, just because he knows it means a lot to you.
18. Appreciate you.
19. Help others out.
20. Drive 5hours just to see you for 1.
21. Alwaysgives you apeck on the cheek when you depart from each others company, even whenhis friends are watching.
22. Sing, even if he can't.
23. Have a creativesense of humor.
24. Stare at you.
25. Call for no reason.
26. Quitsmoking, chewing, drinking, or drugs - just because he loves u that much to quit it

I'm not trolling. Drive five hours just to see her for one? Ha ha ha nooooooooo.

Any guy who would drive five hours just to see a chick for one is an asshole. If every guy drove around for five hours just to spend one with their girlfriend, we'd fill up the air with so much pollution that we'd all choke on the exhaust, get cancer, and then bake under the sun while our lungs rupture and we slowly die from internal bleeding.

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It depends on your willingness to compromise. Also, on your living arrangements. And, of course, finally, on basic manners

There are things that are nice to do for people, things that are nicer to not do, and things that are just looking for trouble. Don't think of them as chores, think of them as avoiding obstacles. And again, it's often the little things that somehow matter the most.
Things like... if you had garlic, be aware when you go in for a kiss. If she doesn't like stubble, warn her before a prickly kiss. Take a shower, even if you're not sure that you need one. Make surprise cups of coffee/tea. Write a sweet note in the fogged up mirror while s/he's in the shower. Offer to drive, or let the other drive if s/he likes driving. A million little things like that that each say "Yeah, you're on my mind and I care," without actually being creepily cloying.

And that's important too. Don't do everything, all the time. Firstly, cos it makes it less special each time, and secondly, cos it gets smothering. Of course, some people like smothering, so YMMV