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for being in a relationship what keeps you in it ?

...what keeps me in is being able to share my day with her and having her share her day with me. Its being around the table with our children and their children listening to the boisterous conversations and feeling wonderful that we has a major part in creating all this noise and laughter.  
It's the times I am able to make her laugh so hard she snorts and the times we hug each other is shared grief. It's believing that we will be by each others side until death, liberally, do us part. It's getting through the tough times to be able to enjoy the good times along with the sometimes mundane day to day. it's sharing in her joy when she leans a new skill and sharing mine when I do. ( we are both kinda crafty ) It's knowing that I can be me, with out guile, and in all my curmudgeonly glory and still be accepted. It's sharing our hopes for the future, our worries about the same. It's seeing her smile when her Harley fires up and roars over the sound of my girly Honda.  
 
It's all these things and much, much more.  
 
And yes, I know I am the lucky one.  
 
Regards

Spaghetti Monster. I feel the exact same way.

Being a silly dad and husband, making and seeing my wife and kids laugh means the world to me... and of course time spent with family.

I’m not able to answer this fully, because no one will want to read my million word paragraph.. but having a sleepover with your best friend every single night is pretty great.

It has to be mutually beneficial. If my quality of life isn't better with you around, it's Dumpsville: Population - You.  
 
Unless you're loaded, then I'm more forgiving.