The 10 things you definitely experience when you've been together for almost 10 years
In just five weeks and three days, don’t hold me to the second or the hour, but then I will have been together with my boyfriend for ten years. Ten years. So every time I tell someone, I count back to see how old I was then, to check if it’s correct. My little sister was seven then and today she is leaving for a year to America. That’s what I mean, it was that long ago.
But in ten years, you experience things. One thing at the beginning, the other you check off when those ten years are behind you.
1. The fart and how to deal with it
The little accident that found its way out and if things go wrong, in a dead silence. You immediately make clear agreements about whether you are both of the motto ‘let it fly’ or not. We belong to the latter.
2. That time you honestly said you didn’t like a gift
Because that’s possible. No matter how painful it is to say, it’s even worse that you never wear it, admit it. I had it with a watch the size of a clock. My goodness, it’s official, I’m a jerk.
3. The marriage-kids situation
You’ve talked about it. Whether you want to or just absolutely not. Whether you show up like a cream puff, with white horses under your butt or whether you slur ‘yes’ in a drunken haze in Vegas. You might have already signed a cohabitation contract, are working on house number one with number two on the way. Maybe there’s already a little one in the crib or you’re keeping a wide berth around it.
4. The trick with the gentleman
Honestly, they all know a trick and in those ten years, this supernatural move has definitely been performed at least once. Right in the bedroom, in a look-what-I-can-do way.
5. Everything went wrong
Between you. Or around you. You dragged his backpack, he took yours. You once doubted whether you could still carry the other’s. One of the two wondered if this was it, only to panic at the thought that it wasn’t anymore.
6. The first time you threw away something his mother bought for him
Because it’s not aaaaaan to look at, so ugly. You’ve subtly said this a hundred times until you accidentally dropped it in the trash can and the garbage man came by before he could fish it out again.
7. You find a modus
In year one, you find it a pleasure that he’s off to hockey with his friends on Sunday or that he calls you every evening from a guys' weekend. In years three and four, you find it horror, because it eats away your weekend and hello, when are you going to be together again? By year ten, you’re okay, you’re not in love with it, you don’t find it annoying anymore, it just is and belongs that way.
8. All the first times
The first time you forgot to shave your legs or take a shower before you went to bed. That time his cooking skills were so terrible that you threw everything in the trash. The first time you had a fight and you were sure he wouldn’t run away from you. The first time you snored really loudly.
9. That time you were both so drunk that you fell out of your shoes and he had a delayed reaction and just missed catching you
I won’t say whether this example is based on truth. Or that time you vomited every cucumber, sip of water, and bite of yogurt from nine in the morning until four in the afternoon and he still sweetly asked if you wanted to eat something.
10. The moment you know
You experience it, because if you easily make it to ten years, then you also check off growing old together easily. Because you want to.
