the truth is that every relationship is based around…
Page 151 the truth is that every relationship is based around an implicit contract, a balance of expectations. Unless these are made clear, misunderstandings are inevitable. A contract will only work if both of us get what we want out of it.
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
In the book
But know that the world owes you nothing it promised, that much of what you hope for in this life you will not get, and that this is not a tragedy but simply the weather. And know this too, which took me a lifetime: every relationship you will ever have runs on an unspoken contract of expectations — what each of you silently assumes the other owes. More heartbreak comes from those unspoken clauses than from any betrayal. — The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)