Marriage and relationships mean you lose a piece of yourself, especially if you are doing it right, or I suppose that has been my understanding from my elders. The other person becomes part of you and on occasion you might forget where you end, and they start. It is not a terrible thing, just a fact.
Relationships, real ones, have an ebb and flow, peaks, and valleys as one expects. I mean no one can be happy all the time, which is ridiculous. Busy managing the peaks and valleys, you often do not get time to really look at the relationship you are in. That is until it falls apart or explodes into small pieces. For example, your partner decided to start a relationship with someone else for a couple of years and just forgot to tell you about it. That is when you look at your relationship as if it were a case study in a public health disease outbreak publication. Everyone can see the relationship is imploding like a neutron star. But as we all know, in space there is no sound.
Note: I did not intend this series to be anything, but I do think that it speaks to the qualities of a relationship in its finality.
