For those of you in long term relationships and especially those of you who are married, do you feel like you and your SO are truly partners? Like you can rely on them, they can rely on you, and you work together to both be better together? You both give to the other and have each other's best interests in mind as well as your own?
Just wondering...
For me, yes. Many couples with kids my age (late 30s) though tend to grow apart faster because of the added stress and less time for each other. Certainly not all, but many.
Yes but you are radically oversimplifying something really complicated. Partnership changes over time. To the other posters point kids make things way more complicated as well.
I think everyone that gets together and gets married thinks this way, albeit some anticipate divorce. Those that anticipate divorce are just wasting their time but I suppose divorce may provide something to gain for some people, unfortunately. Marriage is really a bad contract for most men to sign into but love is blind and causes people to not think with their heads. We are sort of programmed by our mothers and society that marriage and kids is a goal and something to look forward to. It seems almost all women aim for marriage in some capacity, again, stereotypes we hear as children glorify marriage but it can be an ugly endeavor. People don't even realize that marriage is merely for the convenience of the government to keep track of things and people more formally.
After 49 years of marriage probably yes, but I should be sure after another 25 or 30 years.
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