ro-mantik:

It’d be easy not to try, to let our love slowly disintegrate like the scaffolding of a half-finished skyscraper. Because that’s what relationships are: a constant work-in-progress. Anyone that tells you otherwise is infinitesimally fortunate or truly deceitful. So do you want the truth?

The truth is that my boyfriend and I aren’t perfect. We aren’t a cute, #goals, #powercouple 24/7, every second of our waking lives. We have our arguments and our tiffs. We have our moments of irrationality and rigidity. But it’s the expected outcome when two people descend from the pheromone-driven lovefest that is the “honeymoon” phase and back into the reality that a relationship is an existence of two people with different perspective on living.

But like scaffolding, it’s important to allow for flexibility. To support, to build each other up, to repair the fissures that eventually form. It’s important to look beyond the scaffolding, the nitty gritty of everyday drivel, to admire the structure you’re creating, the relationship you’re building. Together, upwards and forward and beyond.