Relationship advice for API providers and consumers

Quiz for API architects, designers, or developers. What's an API-world analogy for these "good practices" of romantic relationships?

1. Serve your partner the way they’d like to be served.

2. Tolerate minor shortcomings.

3. Don’t take their kindness for granted.

4. Always be there for each other.

5. Give each other some space.

6. Only ask for what you’ll use.

7. Open marriages work, until they don’t.

See the slide deck below for my take on it - created for a talk at an API industry forum.