• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    If I can quote a thing: happiness isn’t having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.

    Points to anyone who can name the source without using Google.

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    11 days ago

    I go through phases of this with my husband. We’ve been married for 13 years, and he is legit my best friend, and I find him to be just unbelievably hot af. I’ll go weeks where I’m just like “goddamn, this is mine?”

    And then I also go through less intense periods. He’s still my partner through life and I’d get his back through anything and everything, but it’s less “omg you’re so hot” googly eyes and more like “this is the life we’ve built together and I’m so glad I did it with you”.

    But then a few weeks later I’m in crush mode.

    Obligatory of course we have our periods where we annoy the fuck out of each other, but it’s usually short-lived and we communicate and work through it. I think that’s just a realistic fact of marriage.

    He has made me such a better person than I was when I met him though. I think about that constantly.

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      11 days ago

      I’m 16 years in and this describes me and my wife. I really struggle being around people who complain about their spouse. I just don’t relate, lol. Yeah she annoy me some times but I would take being a little annoyed than being alone. I also love to hear about people who love their spouses. My best friend only ever says positive things about his wife and it makes it enjoyable comparing spouses.

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      11 days ago

      I’ve been married 9 years, together for 16, and this really sums it up for me. Just this morning the way they looked at me in bed when we woke up and I was smitten.

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        11 days ago

        Aren’t those moments the fucking best? When it’s such a “simple thing” to wake up next to someone and just feel that calm security or even the “fuck yeah you’re so goddamned attractive and you chose me too!”

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    11 days ago

    Lol idk that seems beautiful and whatnot but not very realistic.

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    11 days ago

    This reminds me of that twilight zone episode where the guys buys the love potion for $1 and then the girl he likes becomes his wife and then she is so obsessed with him the he can’t take it so he buys the other potion that makes the effects of the love potion go away, but the guys charges him $1,000 for the anti-love potion.

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    This post and thread gives me (back) so much hope. I always hoped for something like described here. But I never came anywhere close and so I have lost the hope over time. I was thinking in the direction of “I just want someone to share my life with. It will work out to be ok somehow.” But some recent events and post like this give me back the hope to find a the person I really want to share time with. It also brings me the motivation to work on myself, so to be more like I would like to be. Thanks you all.

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    11 days ago

    That woman speaks as if she was in a harem with the least chance of being the only one to marry with the protagonist. But yes, I can imagine how that probably is adorable. I’d like a wife like that myself.

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      Sometimes people just get along so well it seems magical, and they actually both fall for each other.

      This is rare, but it happens, and it’s something to treasure, something people are insanely happy and in love years into their marriages, still trying to believe their luck.

      And if you’re looking for the one, you may opt not to look for “hoes” or treating your partner like that.

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      11 days ago

      You want a “hoe” for a wife lmao listen to yourself before you talk mate

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        I meant to say “how”, not “hoe”. I think you should’ve been able to figure that out by context.

  • SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    My partner and I are like this. We’ve been together for 14 years and are legit best friends.

    I have a feeling too many people paired off right away and decided their first serious relationship was the one, and never actually found an equal. Maybe they married more out of fear of being alone rather than actual desire, or they just can’t tell the difference between sexual novelty and love.

    Even a lot of my married friends start identifying more with boomer humor than romance after 2 or 3 years. Way too many communication issue, or ideas of traditional roles or how things ‘should be’ leading to resentment or exasperation.

    Court long and marry late. And don’t hide your real self when dating.

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      I dunno. Dating long can bring its own gigantic bag of issues. You will have to build every relationship from the start. If you have a bag of expectations, fears, maybe even hard trauma that you project onto the relationship early on, it will make it more difficult to build the relationship.

      “Oh my god he is not answering the phone. He is probably cheating on me right now how ex#3 did.”

      “She said she loves me after only week three of us having a thing. This is just like crazy ex#5.”

      “He didn’t say he loves me after its been four weeks already. He is probably only affectionate now but will turn cold and distant like ex#4.”

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        But those are all personality traits you need to discover and address before you’re married. If you’re the one bringing those concerns, you need to get yourself in check before jumping into long term relationships.

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      12 days ago

      I’m sorry, but you suck…
      hard…
      at being…
      a sad, sad satellite. 🛰️

      I’m glad for you :)