Maybe it's the fact that I am getting older, or the fact that I just moved away from my boyfriend (or ex-boyfriend?), or maybe it's because I'm on Tylenol PM. Regardless, I have been thinking a lot about marriage and settling down and being happy with someone. I want to know if it really exists. Like can you really be happy and passionate about someone every single day for the rest of your life, or do you have to settle for someone who brings you comfort and security?
Being the passionate person that I am, I always dreamed of being with someone just as passionate as me. And of course, he would be passionate about exactly the same things as me. He would be a photographer, and like to listen to the same kind of music, and he'd want to go out on exactly the nights I want to go out and he would want to stay in on exactly the nights that I want to stay in. And he would be passionate about art and life and creativity. I dreamed he would write me epic love poems about me and come home with hand made nick-knacks for me every night. I believed that I would find someone who valued the exact same things as me, in exactly the same scale. He would be romantic, and sweet, and funny, and caring and everything my little heart could have ever wanted. But I am starting to wonder if this is where my problem is...
How can anyone be exactly everything I need them to be at every moment of every day? How can I expect someone to know and feel and want and need and be passionate in exactly the same fashion as me? That's absurd, right?...
But I guess my bigger question is where do I draw the line. What things am I willing to give up? What things can't i live without? What things am I okay not getting from my boyfriend and/or lover and/or husband. What things can I bring to myself without someone else's help? And if I let go of some of those things that I need, is that settling? or just settling down?
Part of this grown up process has taught me that I can't expect things from people. I have to be able to provide them to myself and I have to be content in who I am and what I can do to make myself feel joy and loved and happy even if someone else isn't doing it for me. I have to foster my creativity, I have to follow my own dreams, and I have to listen to my own heart's callings.
I guess what I am trying to say is that my last relationship gave me things I never had before: comfort, security, trust, loyalty, honesty and safety. So for me, it got boring. There was no passion, or fire, or any real sparks on a daily basis. Not to say that there was no passion at all, but it wasn't very frequent. I want both, passion every day and trust every day. But I don't know if both things exist. My previous dysfunctional (but passionate) relationships were exciting because I never knew what to expect. There was always some sort of danger, or harm or insecurity just lurking in the corner waiting to come out and attack. There was passion because there was nothing else in those relationships. So, I am just wondering if you can have passion and security? Do they exist together? And if I give up on one or the other am I settling or settling down?
