Love can change us. Young love shapes us, quick love pleases us, the love that's here to stay grounds us. But I don't think anything changes you more than the hate that can come from love when everything goes wrong. I have loved people in situations that didn't end poorly. We lost touch and I…
College is a great time to meet the person you're going to marry. You might not date them while you're a freshman or sophomore and still getting the hang of things, but there is a huge possibility you're going to meet the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with. You're…
I've been skeptical about monogamy for a while now. I used to be very gung-ho on love, having a family, and living happily ever after. But the older I got, the more unrealistic it seemed. We are constantly changing. It's hard for me to fathom that with all the changes we go through, we will…
On a recent blog post called Choosing Love, Candid Compositions mentioned how important it is to know each other's love languages and I completely agree. I started looking into love languages in the past couple years and kind of assumed that mine was receiving gifts. But I decided to do some official digging and take…
I think we all experience love differently. I see it every day, there is no one way to love someone. And I'm not just talking about family love vs. friends love vs. marriage love - I'm saying that every relationship and every person who is in love does it differently. My first big love was…
I was listening to a podcast recently (pretty sure it was Terrible, Thanks for Asking) that started talking about how men and women confront problems differently. It struck a chord with me because my boyfriend and I approach stress in 100% different ways - it often causes our little tiffs into bigger fights because of…
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Dating is hard. In our culture, we mate for life. We find a person as soon as we can to marry and have children with and grow old with. We have marriage benefits, we have joint bank accounts, and we share lives. That’s a very serious thing so the process to get there is very…
Life is hard and relationships are an aspect of life - so they aren't always easy either. My boyfriend and I are celebrating 4 years together and if there's one thing I learned, it's that nothing is a constant. I wrote about how our 3rd year together had the theme of sticking together. I don't…
Continue reading ➞ What I’ve Learned After 4 Years Of Being In A Relationship
Relationships are a fragile thing. One string becomes frayed, it gets snagged, and the whole thing unravels into your hands. You never saw it coming. Basically since the start of this blog, I've expressed my fears on settling. Especially settling for someone you don't really love. Settling for less than fireworks, all in romance, and…
A mid-life crisis is an emotional crisis of identity and self-confidence that can occur in early middle age. So I think that would make a mid-relationship crisis an emotional crisis of identity and self-confidence that can occur in early mid-relationship. I think it's very easy to have an identity crisis in a relationship. Before I started…
