I have never made it past the point in a relationship that Matt and I are coming upon right now. Things are starting to "normalize" a bit, and we are becoming comfortable with our daily routines. This is the point where things start to get a little...routine. The newness is fading. I see what I want in the end result - I want to be like my parents. I want to be thoroughly happy with my partner thirty years from now and still be able to just sit around the kitchen table and talk. I want that person to be Matt.
How we make it through this next phase is what I am unsure of, since I've never been able to do it before. This is Matt's first real relationship, so he really doesn't know any better. I have the advantage of seeing things that went wrong for me in my previous relationships, and I can use that to prevent doing them again. I want this more than I've wanted anything, so that helps as well. I don't want to give the wrong impression, things are not bad between us, just changing a bit. We talk our way through it a lot, and we're heading into this together.
Another thing that plays to our advantage, although we don't like it, is the fact that we are forced to be apart sometimes. It really makes us appreciate the time that we have together.
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