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Shifting from Chaotic Love to Responsible Love
The joy and pain of accepting someone else as a part of your life
My latest relationship is so healthy, its occasionally scary. It’s great that we can be our true selves around each other. First off, we’re both dorks which is a great first start. We can have intellectual conversations for hours or simply annoy the hell out of each other and still love each other immediately afterwards.
Our love for each other isn’t chaotic. While no couple is perfect, we’re shockingly compatible.
Too bad it took me literally years of my life to discover this.
Lately, I been wondering just exactly why this relationship feels so stable compared to my past attempts at romance. What is this magical feeling that everything is going to work out this time? Or at the very least, if it doesn’t, it won’t crash and burn, but peacefully drive in opposite directions.
Love is more than a verb, it’s a Responsibility
There is a common thread among my past relationships. Despite my best efforts to love the woman in front of me, I…
