@EGGIE I’m so glad that this hasn’t happened to you, I just assumed from reading your question last night, apologies for that honey <hugs>. I’ve been reading all of the replies from our fellow jellies and it all seems to come down to communication. When relationships fail (and I’m not just talking about “couple” relationships, but friendships, family relationships etc etc) so much of the time it could all have been avoided and/or sorted by just sitting down and talking. Too often assumptions are made on both sides and trouble follows.
That having been said, I’ve always said that the single most solid basis for a relationship is friendship. If you can look at the person you have chosen to commit yourself to and think, yeah, thats my friend, I can laugh with him/her, I enjoy spending my freetime with him/her, I can tell them anything, thats my best pal that is. If you can do that, then together you’ll have a relationship that is so strong it will carry you through the years and get stronger with every year that goes past, because no matter what you have to face, you can do it because your best pal has your back, and you have theirs. I married my best pal and over 26 years later he still knows how to make me laugh like no one else I’ve ever known, and on the days when all I want to do is cry, he wraps his arms round me and hugs me really tightly, and somehow he manages to make whatever is upsetting me go away.
huggles honey xx