imo it's to do with balances of power and how well people manage their own expectations...
any relationship where one person cares more about it than the other is likely to fail i think...Over time, the amount each person cares or doesn't care is magnified until the whole thing falls apart.
In terms of expectation, we are drip fed so much by the media about how your love life should constantly resemble the state in which you just fell in love ("5000 ways to please your man!!!" etc..) instead of acknowledging the reality that a relationship that extends over any longish period of time is going to settle into a rut....If people could learn to recognise that 'the rut' isn;t in fact a problem, and has it's own charms, and could learn to deal with it on it's own terms instead then i think relationships would be much more successful...
people should stop trying to be 22 forever imo
Originally posted by queeq
Balance of Power... ah no... a healthy relationship is not about power.
exactly my point. If the balance is right, then power is never an issue.
I'm sure we have all been in relationships at some point where we either cared more, or cared less about what was going on than the person we were with.