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Myth vs. Reality About Long-Term Relationships

The good, the bad and the ugly.

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Myth vs. Reality About Long-Term Relationships
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Myth vs reality about long term relationships

We live in a generation where the divorce rate is 50%, infidelity as at an all-time high and monogamous relationships are almost frowned upon. The media isn’t helping this fact either. There are tons of articles out there going into detail about all of the bad things that begin to happen after you’ve been together for a while. The cute things become annoying. Your partner stops trying and etc. So this article is to shine some light on the good things that come with a long-term relationship.

What you hear vs what they don’t say

  • 1) Those once really cute things now are the most irritating thing in the world vs you’ve never noticed how happy your partner looks when they are singing in the car.
  • 2) You get too comfortable vs you get so comfortable that they help you pop your pimples that you cant reach
  • 3) The fights just get more personal and mean vs they know exactly what to say to make you feel better no matter what
  • 4) You run out of things to talk about vs now sitting in silence is the most comfortable feeling in the world
  • 5) Conversations become shorter vs you can now communicate entirely by looks
  • 6) My mother in law is the worst vs you gain an entirely new family that loves and cares about you just like their own kid
  • 7) You fight all the time and its exhausting vs you argue to solve a disagreement and it only makes your relationship stronger
  • 8) You stop hanging out with your friends vs they become your best friend who knows all of your secrets and who you want to tell everything too

Long term relationships aren’t worse, they just take more work from both people, and you can’t get lazy. If you do it right you have a best friend to hang out with instead of someone weighing on you all the time.

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