The most awkward phases you go through as a couple
If you've spent ten plus years with the same love in your life, you inevitably reach a point where you no longer shave your legs before crawling into bed.
Or that you no longer care about morning breath when your love is two meters away in the shower. As you get to know each other better year after year, you pass all the awkwardness. And while it's nice to just lie on the couch in your tracksuit with a bag of cheese onion chips without shame, it can also be a bit uncomfortable. Because, uh, yes, weren't you in love? Oh yes. Don't you find each other sexy, attractive, incredibly exciting? Yes, really, but maybe not after a herring sandwich with onion. Or when beer is being breathed out of the pores.
These are the most awkward phases that you as a couple inevitably go through:
The first time sick phase: you both get stomach flu
You don't feel well and neither does your love. And then it's quickly choosing and sharing: you take one toilet, I take the other. One at night with a towel in bed, the other with a bucket. Stomach flu is not charming, but after throwing all the misery out of your body, you have come a step closer to each other.
The doubts if there is more phase: you become jealous
You think: is the grass not greener at that one nice colleague at work and kabam, jealousy strikes in the relationship. You doubt, which makes the other doubt too, and then it's careful in the house. Phones are checked and there is bickering and snapping. And hopefully, you discover in time that the grass with your love is always the greenest.
The it's not going so well with me phase: one of you is in a slump
For a moment, one of the two doesn't know what to do with life. You worry about your job, your future, your life dreams. You have a burnout or depression and you don't know anything anymore. That has an impact on your relationship. Difficult for both.
The it's boring phase: you fall into a rut
It's all good and fine, but yes, no more sparkling fireworks. It's just as it is. And it has been that way for ages. Nice, but maybe also a bit boring. Throw in some noise, hop onto a rooftop terrace, or have an incredibly drunk argument. Spice it up.
The becoming father and mother phase: you have children
Suddenly, you are past all shame and you easily poop with doors open. Because what you experience together during a pregnancy and childbirth goes beyond what you could ever have imagined. Going to the toilet suddenly becomes totally uninteresting. You've faced hotter fires with maternity mattresses in bed and XL pads in your XL underwear. And you care little about it. You've brought children into the world. And so your love cares little about it too. And oh, then that herring sandwich on Saturday afternoon isn't so bad after all.
