ya know...due to recent events, I am making the following post:

everything up until the one year mark of a couple's relationship is a total joke.

allow me to expound....

bubby and olivia are "on the rocks"...or maybe they've "split up"...i don't know whats going on. ......their one year "anniversary?" this month

basically, i think its very safe to say, don't assume a dang thing until you've been together for a year....becuase thats when the honeymoon stops...and reality kicks in...thats when you REALLY see the person for who they are, who you are as a couple, and life settles into a daily routine of normalcy.

oh yes...even if the couple is "meant to be," the honeymoon will end and reality will kick in...point being, if a couple can make it through the time when the crap hits the fan, so to speak, and they start realizing the huge responsibility they are taking on, and they can look at the other person and say "...theres some things about you that really suck...i do not like *such and such* about you, but we can definately work through these things and I can live with these things, because I choose to love you, and I still want to be with you" THEN i think its pretty safe to start thinking about the next step.

until that happens, just realize the day of reckoning has not yet come...wait for it to happen, then take the next step

I'm watching the EXACT same thing happen with my brother that I went through almost a year ago...

she has spoken




*disclaimer*
no, i do not think this transcends all possibilities of having it any other way...but as a general rule, i think its pretty safe