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A long-term relationship that is not as beautiful as it seems.

The memory of the average person is long dating. It seems like a stable ideal. It seems like we have held hands through a storm together. But in fact, long-term relationships that look beautiful. There are dark corners that many people do not dare to talk about because people often take time to determine how long they have been together. In fact, the duration does not guarantee happiness at all.

In fact, many couples who still endure each other do not always mean that they are happy, but it is a matter of inertia in life. It is lazy to start over, lazy to adapt to someone new. Or sometimes there is an obligation like buying a house together or investing in business together to the point of not being able to retreat. Many people are more willing to endure familiar suffering than to experience more scary uncertainty. If you ask yourself carefully, you know that we are just living every day.

Interestingly, when we start dating for a long time, we start to see that a long relationship is a proof of the truth that the first love often overshadows, because when we start dating, we don't really love the person in front of us. We just love the dream we created ourselves. After a while, the real habits start to come out, and the expectations we put on the other side continue to collapse into disappointment. And when life goes into a boring mode, everything becomes the same, predictable, colorless.

Moreover, differences in relationships tend to make people more and more uncomfortable, especially with unequal status or society. The inferior side is always in a state of dependence on the other person. When the status is unequal, it is difficult to talk to each other like friends. In the end, people have to grow their own way. Some people are dedicated to work. Some people change their life goals, so many times they grow in different directions.

The other thing that kills silent relationships is the fear of communication. People often do not want to open up the quarrel, so choose to hide the problem under the carpet instead. Finally, from a distance of mind leads to a non-return physical distance. So if you want to know if the relationship is still ok, ask yourself if we are still happy. The uncomfortable things are really solvable, and most importantly, if the other party is ready to work together to solve the problem with us. If the answer is to sit down and catch each other's differences all the time instead of sheltering each other, this is not a proud relationship.

Seriously, nothing in this world lasts forever. It's not selfish to put your own happiness in a place, but it's to maintain the quality of life. If a relationship breaks, no one tries to fix it or fix it, it's not going to work. To confront change is probably the most fair solution for both of them.

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