Many college students find it hard to make a relationship work for a whole two months, let alone almost twenty years like Michelle and Barack Obama. The two met in 1989 when Michelle was working at a law firm and was an advisor to Barack, who was then still just a peon of a summer associate from Harvard Law School. She refused to even go out with him for a month before they began dating, but Barack must have done something right because the couple married in 1992. So what advice would the Obama’s give on relationships? Read on, you liberal lovers…

1) Chill: In 2007, Michelle Obama granted the New York Times an interview in which she admitted "... she wants to keep her marriage 'sort of stress-free, free of the discussion, free of the analysis, free of the assessment.'" Don’t overanalyze your relationship. If you are always so busy dissecting it, you aren’t getting enough of the good stuff about relationships. Like sex.

2) Share: Both Obamas attended Harvard Law School. Sure, it might not seem like the most amorous of environments, but shared interests can really strengthen a relationship (i.e. sex... or legal theory.)

3) But don't date yourself: Of course, opposites attract too. Recently a professor from Harvard Law who taught both Obamas spoke with Newsweek:

"When [Barack Obama] spoke, people got quiet and listened," recalls Prof. Randall Kennedy. "Michelle had a more modest, quieter, lower profile."

And we all know that sometimes someone’s got to be on top.

4) Don't cutesy excessively: Much ado was made of the Fist Bump Seen ‘Round the World. Remember, though, that not everyone wants to see you and your girlfriend or boyfriend PDAing all over the place. And you’ll keep a lot more friends if you don’t gross everyone out by making out a la Tipper and Al Gore.

5) Play: Okay a little more on the fist bump, ‘cause really, how can you ever say enough about it? Barack Obama told NBC’s Brian Williams that the fist bump was symbolic of why Michelle rocks his political socks off. He told the newscaster:

It captures what I love about my wife, which is that there is a reverence about her and a sense that for all the hoopla that I'm her husband and sometimes we'll do silly things.

She's proud of me and she gives me some credit once in a while, but I actually pull some things off.

So what’s the point? It’s cool to be supportive and proud of your sweetheart, as long as you don’t turn into a gushy lump of mashed potatoes. And at the end of the day, you gotta be able to dick around together.