working together

Even though I know I'm not the only one, I am sure we are few. Relationships are hard, you are with a person you love of course, but even the ones you love the most are difficult to put up with All The Time. The step you take when you move in with your boyfriend after a few months dating or even years, is a big and enough step for some couples. For me, this was an easy step, we already spent all the time together, it was just a matter of now we could sleep together as well. The next big step usually must be marriage or babies, but for us it was working together, which I came to understand isn't for every couple.
By working together you have no pauses from the other person, you are literally 24/7 with them, and as much as you love them, there will be difficult times and difficult decisions. From now on, you bring your work fights home, and your personal issues to work. You have to learn how to deal with this person who from one point of view, is a coworker, and from another, is your life, your love, your everything.
Normally people use their work to escape home stress, and their home as a break from the hard work they had that day. We cannot do that. At home we talk about everything of course, work being one of the topics. And if we have a fight at home, it reflects in our work, because the person is still there, even though you have to be professional, you are also mad at that person and you can't just turn it off.
It is difficult, but it isn't all difficulties. It's also nice to have that person to support you at work, and he understands better when you want to talk about work at home in the "how was your day" common topic.
 It takes a lot of love and patience. And compromise.
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