Do you still feel the same way about your partner as you did early on?

[specialmom]

Time takes a toll or makes things stronger?  How about you?  Do you feel the same way about your partner as you did when you were deep into dating?  Be honest, no one will tell them.  :>))))

[specialmom]

Ya, I don't.  Living with someone year after year can change a lot of things. Doesn't mean I don't love him but it is in a different way than the early days.  

[AnnieBrooke]

Both -- time has taken a toll and also has made things stronger. We've been married a long time and had lots of things happen to us as a couple. More good than bad by a very long way, but things that happen can drag on you even if they also build your strengths as a couple. It's not as light and frothy as when I was 23 and we were basically playing house.

I do feel about him the way I did when we were deep into dating, but it's not the archetypical wild passionate crazy, etc. ... we figured things out pretty early, didn't have wild highs and lows because we didn't have many doubts. I still have no doubts -- if ever either of us were to leave each other it would be because the world had shifted in its orbit.  If I sometimes would like a vacation from my life, that's no matter who I'm married to (unless, of course, he was a doting billionaire who funded my every idea and paid for lots of domestic help who did all the skut work. In that case, I wouldn't need a vacation from my life!) :)

[dominosarah]

We didnt have the highs and lows either.  It was just the way it was for us.  He was still raising young girls so there was no time for that "honeymoon" stage.  The one difference in our lives is now it is quality over quantity in the bedroom!  Sleep has become important in our lives!!!  lol

[AnnieBrooke]

My poor husband does not get a very lively partner nowadays. Our son is 11 and I'm tired from getting up and making lunches in the morning and bird-dogging him all afternoon. This is the one disadvantage of having kids later in life -- less energy to act like a teenager oneself.  :)

[dominosarah]

I still get butterflies in my gut when he comes home from work.  Our relationship keeps getting stronger and stronger as time goes by.  He has been my rock during the most trying time of our lives.  These last few months have been so painful and he has always given me a reason to smile and to keep on going.   There is such respect and compassion with us.  Dont get me wrong here, we drive each other nuts too!!!