I think there are key points in relationships where you either break up or you make it through. I would say those milestones are at 1, 3 and 5 years. And then after five years you either go the distance and move forward or you go different ways. (With the application in not engaged or married couples.) And I think that’s fair. Five years is long enough to do something about it if you’re serious and relatively short enough at a young age to find somebody else.
But it always makes me sad when long term couples break up. Ones that are steady and seem strong. I guess you never know what really happens actually within the relationships but living together, going on vacations together, being that x is always with y and talking in “we” and “us” es always makes me think they’re going to make it. And I guess it’s scary to think that if they have something that didn’t last though it seemed like it would, the same thing could apply to J and I.
(Not that I think it will so he won’t freak out when he reads this, but in general.)
