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I used to think my goal was making a woman truly happy but now my goal is making myself truly happy and it would be nice if a woman who is trying to make herself truly happy were along for the ride.
Spoiler alert: Good relationships involve both parties contributing 100%.
Speaking as someone married fifty years.
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My steady partner is a long-term friend. Not everything is sexual or dating just because we are, in fact, in a relationship that includes sex. Sometimes eating is just eating.
Going steady is commonly understood to mean a long term , serious romantic relationship Being obtuse and choosing obscure definitions of terms to win points on technicalities isn’t clever, it’s childish
Calling me childish for having that view seems childish in itself. I'm simply not romanticising everything.
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Going steady is commonly understood to mean a long term , serious romantic relationship Being obtuse and choosing obscure definitions of terms to win points on technicalities isn’t clever, it’s childish
I do know what it means. That doesn't mean that everything done while in that relationship has anything to do with romance. Sometimes eating is just eating. This isn't making up definitions. It is acknowledging there is a vast difference to what folks call "date night" and stopping to eat on the way home from a destination. Sometimes eating is just eating. Calling me childish for having that view seems childish in it…