The necessary ingredient for a strong friendship and relationship: Love Maps. Deepening the knowledge of your partner’s inner world, their hopes, dreams, aspirations, worries and stresses, isn’t just an intellectual exercise. When individuals share with each other, it draws them closer emotionally. It keeps them connected. Dr Gottman states “Without such a love map, you can’t really know your spouse. And if you don’t really know some-one, how can you truly love them?”