A healthy relationship? I’m with @austinlad….a duplex, two houses down the block from each other, two yurts in a field, two teepees in a canyon.
A healthy relationship consists (to paraphrase St Exupery) not just gazing at each other, but gazing forward in the same direction.
A healthy relationship is being with…..
Someone you would want as a best friend…if you weren’t having sex with each other, too.
Someone who lets you choose the part of the Sunday Times you like first.
Someone who actually talks to you after you make love.
Someone who remembers that you pointed at a tiny brooch in a shop window and said it reminded you of one your grandmother wore…and then gives it to you seven months later at Christmas.
Someone who holds you when you have the flu and still thinks you look beautiful with your hair plastered flat on a pillow and your cherry red nose.
Someone that you aren’t embarrassed to introduce to your friends and family because he might pass out from drinking after hitting on your old Aunt Mabel.
Someone who can spend hours in a bookstore with you and not keep checking his watch because he actually enjoys reading books, too.
Someone who holds your hand as you fall asleep.
Someone who knows when saying nothing is the best thing to say and when saying something is exactly what you need to hear.
A healthy relationship is finding someone who accepts you as you are and doesn’t change you…..and you, (funnily enough) don’t need or want to change them.
(Not that I have found all this….but don’t dash my hopes, folks.)