Page 142 - SILFlip
P. 142
“We do the same boring things.”
What you don’t have in common becomes: “How interesting!”
Without maintenance this becomes:
“We Kight over everything."
Simply stated, you are less likely to be bored by how your relationship operates, and more likely to celebrate newness and differentness when you actively work at bringing that newness into the relationship.
Newness Becomes Complacency Which Sometimes Becomes Hatred
Selhishness and complacency, both unsavory but inescapable components of being human are the erosive aspects of longer term partnership. Disinterest in discovering more about the relationship and your partner can make lovers, strangers again.
I knew a couple where the wife was one of the best violinists in the world. However, you cannot be one of the best in the world without practice. At the start of her relationship with her husband, he was (like mostly anyone else who heard her play) enthralled when she
Staying in Love: Secret Recipes For Making Love Last 142
