[header] How to rescue a relationship [title] Decide if you are both committed to saving the relationship. [step] It is important that you are both committed to working together to renew the relationship and make it better than it was in the past. You can both verbally agree to do this as a way to show you are both invested in the relationship. 
If your partner is not certain about his desire to save the relationship, you may want to reconsider how much this relationship means to him. It may be difficult to save it if both of you are not committed.