The Story of She + Me = Us

I am proud to say that I am in a successful relationship. Today I realized why my relationship is successful. Most people attempt to add someone to their own world rather than building a world together. In other words, that love interest becomes a co-star rather than your entire story meshing with his/her story and thus becoming a new story about the both of you together. 

She loves tango. I have taken up tango. 

I am heavily invested in politics. She has also recently become more invested in politics.

I make her tapes of recent CDs I've purchase for her to listen to. 

She cooks things that she likes that I haven't tried before.

We watch many of the same shows.

We shop together.

We cook together.

We clean up together.

We take care of each other.

I think the openness that we have to allow our worlds to intertwine holds us together like no marriage certificate or offspring ever could.

Now this isn't to say that we don't have our own separate lives. When she and I aren't together, we are the people we have always been, but with a little extra shine that we get from spending quality time and being loved by one another.

Shout out to mi amor. You know who you are.