Give your partner attention and affection. Express gratitude and admiration. Compliment your partner, give them gifts, write them notes or do small favors. Make a goal of having a ratio of 5:1. For every five positive interactions, only have one negative one. Do things that make each other happy. Show interest in your friend's needs, goals, and desires. Share your dreams for your future together. Be willing to change with them. Continue to express your feelings openly and honestly to your friend/partner. Remember not to just focus on yourself: ask how they're feeling and really listen. Check-in regularly about what they want and need. Be direct, clear, and calm with one another. If you're having an argument with each other, you can say, "I feel angry when you..." rather than saying "you make me so angry!" Kind of like creating a mission statement for a business, create a mission statement for your relationship. Have a shared purpose and vision for the relationship you're building. Have shared values and strive to meet those values with each other. It's possible you'll break up, even if you do all of the right things in your relationship. Take comfort in the fact that at least you tried! If you do break up, keep in mind that staying friends may be challenging at first, but it is possible for some couples, especially if it's a mutual break-up and if you ended on good terms. Take some time apart. Don't try to go back to being "just friends" right away. Give it at least half the length of the relationship. Set new boundaries for your friendship. For example, you may not want to talk to them about other romantic partners or intimate feelings. Be careful where and how you spend time. Don't do date-like activities, as this may send mixed signals.
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One-sentence summary -- Nurture each other. Influence each other. Maintain communication. Create a shared meaning. Stay friends if you break up.

In other words, commit yourself to getting your book out there, and don't use "it's not quite ready yet" as a permanent excuse. Revising, refining, and editing are all essential to a good book, but at some point you have to have the courage to get it published. Seeking publication can feel a bit like losing control over your manuscript, after all the time you've spent working and re-working it. Keep reminding yourself that your book deserves to be seen and read! If necessary, impose a deadline on yourself: "I'm going to submit this to publishers by January 15, one way or the other!" You can submit your manuscript to publishers yourself, but you'll increase your odds of success by working with an agent. They'll have the experience and industry contacts needed to give your work a better chance of finding the right publisher. Unless you live near a book publishing hotbed, your best bet is to search online for literary agents. Evaluate potential agents and look for the best fit for you and your manuscript. If you know any published authors, ask them for tips and leads on agents. Typically, you'll submit excerpts or even your entire manuscript to an agent, and they'll decide whether to take you on as a client. Make sure you're clear on their submission guidelines before proceeding. If your book has a small target audience due to its subject matter, it may be tough to find a publisher to take it on. This is especially the case when you're a new author. Fortunately, you have options when it comes to publishing the book yourself. You can self-publish copies on your own, which may save you money but will take up a lot of time. You'll be responsible for everything from obtaining a copyright to designing the cover to getting the actual pages printed. You can work through self-publishing companies, but you'll often end up paying more to get your book published than you'll ever make back from selling it. Self-publishing an e-book may be a viable option since the publishing costs are low and your book immediately becomes accessible to a wide audience. Evaluate different e-book publishers carefully before choosing the right one for you.
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One-sentence summary -- Keep revising your book, but don't make excuses for not submitting it. Hire a literary agent if you're aiming for traditional publication. Look into self-publishing options if the traditional route isn't ideal.

Before you begin, remember that paint thinner is quite toxic.When attempting to clean your stains, wear proper safety clothing, including gloves, safety goggles, and a respirator. If you're cleaning the stain while inside in your home, open a window to properly ventilate the fumes. This solvent is also very flammable, so be sure not to bring it near any sort of open flame. Even though turpentine is less toxic than most paint thinners, there's no harm in being safe and wearing the proper gear when cleaning fabric with it. Make sure that if you're using paint thinner, it's a thinner that matches directly to the paint that was used.Anything too volatile and flammable will most likely damage your fabric. You don't want to discolor your clothing in the process, then you have to be careful with the thinner that you choose. If don't know what sort of paint is responsible for the stain, then your best bet is to use turpentine. Fill a bucket with hot water and let your stained article sit overnight. Check the tag on your garment to check the maximum temperature that it can handle. When you wake up the next morning, you can run it through a normal laundry cycle. Be sure not to wash it with any other articles of clothing, as you run the risk of staining the rest of your load. If you see a significant change in the coloration after the first attempt, then it's worth repeating the process again.If not, however, the stain may be permanent. This means you may have to throw the garment out. The more times that you apply the thinner or turpentine to the fabric, the larger the risk of further damage to the material.
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Put on proper safety gear. Place paint thinner or turpentine directly on the affected area. Let the garment soak overnight and run it through the laundry the next day.