What age makes you wonder
In this budding relationship we reflect on our friends who are in the throes of the ten-year mark – they can’t get back to where we are, but they have so much of what you hope to be – can they have faith they can keep moving forward? We hope so. What keeps you in a relationship once the bud has bloomed and bloomed – it’s why I love peonies – so many petals to open – so long a time before they fall.
It’s a mystery how relationships make it past the decade mark – should they? – what awaits you in decade two? – on a lark I googled “how to sustain a long term relationship” and came up with a wiki site – naturally a wiki site for how to keep going – how telling of our times that this advice exist for you at the ready. But I agree with its tenets (a child is the deal breaker) except I would add to the list to be brave – to allow the changes in you to occur and have faith your partner will accommodate new elements of you and delight in them even if they seem threatening at first.