As Stoics, our motto is to "Live According to Nature". Seneca talks about this in a lovely manner on Letter from a Stoic.
Long-term relationships require high-quality communication and energetic harmony. The best relationships, like everything in life, evolve and mature daily.
You are the only person capable of bringing tranquility and inner peace to yourself. It is not your mother, girlfriend, or partners. It comes from within.
Most that have achieved enormous success did not conform. All great founders are well-mannered misfits. None of the founders we back are ordinary people.
As success comes in your life, it is easy to be trapped by your circumstances and become slaved into a reality that you must do more.
More than a startup or your VC fund, the very first legacy you will build as a man (or woman) is your relationship with your loved one, followed by family.