Relationships: Comfort vs. Intensity
EDIT: I've realized that a forum really isn't going to solve my problems for me, so the next couple of responses were all I needed to hear. NEW SUBJECT:
How would you rate your own relationship on its 'sparkle' level? What do you do for your partner (and vice versa) that really makes you just love them more each day?
Kept for reference:
Alright, so I've been with my girlfriend for two and a half years. I think we're both great for each other. There's just one thing that I realized about us recently (and she's made comments about from time to time):
We're kinda boring. I mean, we love each others company. We communicate well and often. The sex life is kinda on the downlow since we're long-distance a good portion of the time, and when we're together it's generally with supervision not too far off. However, that part'll get fixed up nicely in the spring when we live at colleges less than a mile away from each other. Sleepoverrrrr! xD
Back to the point. We're both rather comfortable just -being- in a relationship with each other. We've each done lots of little cute things for each other, but certainly a lot less than in the honeymoon stage. This makes her more sad than I, but I'm recently wisening up to the situation as well.
So, in short, I'm realizing that both of us (but -largely- me) have to step it up to keep our relationship interesting. It's not like we won't stay together in the alternative...just it will be a -serviceable- relationship, not a sparkling one. And we want sparkly.
So I put the question to you TFP. If you're lazy (like me), how do you get up the motivation to put in the extra effort to really turbocharge your relationship? Or are you both okay with semi-boring but -comfy-?
Any thoughts? ^^
Last edited by Jozrael; 09-23-2008 at 09:54 AM..
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