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Peak cuteness?

October 11, 2007   

I wonder when you cross over from being so close to someone that you can riff on inside jokes and finish each other’s sentences and it’s so awesome and fun and goofy that it makes you giggle all the time, to becoming utterly bored and annoyed by the sameness and lack of mystery of it all.

Seppo and I are still in the “omg, why are you so awesome and funny all the time” phase, and we are nearing 10 years together. I don’t say this to make anyone jealous. I know a lot of relationships over the history of the human populations must have been great for periods, but many fall apart at some point.

How do we, as a modern, proactive couple, keep ourselves from reaching that critical cliff where the familiar goes from comforting to confining? What steps must we take and what interactions must we be aware of so that we never hit that? How we we continually work to make sure our relationship is getting better and better with time?

Advice? Insight? Cynical jokes? 😀

2 Comments
h
October 11, 2007 at 6:45 pm

Keep being interesting people, with varied and changing interests, who keep growing all the days of their lives. Then you always have something to “bring to the table” and although the texture and flavor of your interaction will remain joyful and unbelievably close, the actual content of your dialog will never get stagnant.

(1.5 years into “omg, why are you so awesome and funny all the time” phase and shooting for 70 more)

hapacheese
October 15, 2007 at 10:09 am

I think we’re at the same point and so far, just keeping your sense of humor seems to work. I think the moment you start taking every little thing too seriously (because how much do little problems really matter in the long run?) is when you stop laughing at each other and enjoying the ride.

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