Room to breathe, coupled with the certainty that when you need your partner, they will be there.

I’m not talking about open marriage. I mean if you love surfing, and your partner hates or fears it, the bond between you is both elastic and strong enough for you to go do your thing knowing home is your safe place.

This does not include surfing AND cheating on your partner.

Complete trust.

Trust

honesty, if you can fake honesty you'll do OK

I'm old-ish and today it's all about trust. I want to share intimacy with someone but my experiences makes it much more difficult. Getting older isn't only about looks. There's nothing more humiliating to overcome than continue smiling after a trust broken

Liking each other

Tits I guess

Trust

Sex, I can get - and do get - anywhere, but trust? That's a rare commodity, I think, out in the real world.

Very important to me.

Their bank balance. I need to know they can pay for everything I want

Hard to say 1 thing alone: Respect, trust, communication, loyalty, (com)passion. Relationships are multi-layered beasts with strong, sensitive makeup, and each one is different. Too many people are not eager or willing to realize a relationship is a choice.

Understanding!

Respect

Intimacy

Surviving it.

Honesty and intimacy.

If you can't be intimate, you are really not being honest either.

No point in the relationship.

And if you can't be honest, the relationship will fail.

Independence from one another so that every action is one of genuine love and not need from the lack of it.

Real love, including wanting what is best for your partner

Devotion care and respect and being nice, having common goals

Knowing with whom you have a relationship

Basic commonality on shared core issues.

Ships should have plenty of life boats.

Trust, decent communication, respect. Etc

having another person involved.

Butt secks. It's spiritual!

Trust and respect.

Trust.

Love, understanding and trust

No socks and shoes in the house

Trust. 100%.

That the guy or girl you're finally getting intimate with in their Designer-inspired basement apartment, don't have their parents occupying the top two floors of the house.