1. You went on vacation together and everything went wrong. It's
very likely this was your first vacation together, so you probably
wanted everything to be perfect but then oh, nope.
Your hotel TV only
had basic cable and the internet was spotty and you couldn't figure out
which gate you were supposed to be at because the airport kept changing
it. If you were able to weather that, you're golden.
2. You went on a road trip to literally anywhere together. Listen,
if you're driving with your partner to anywhere farther than the
grocery store, you're going to either get antsy or bored or exhausted or
punchy. The opportunity to go from "Yay! Six-hour road trip to the
beach that's better than our normal beach!" to "You didn't bring enough
snacks and you drank the last water??" is very real. But pulling up to
your home at the end and still liking each other = love.
3. You met their parents and they didn't totally like you at first. Meeting
the parents will always be stressful. Meeting them and having them love
you? Easy. But if you met their parents and they weren't too sure about
you and you were able to figure out how to get through that together,
keep this one.
4. You had major issues with one of their good friends. I've
definitely had friends whose girlfriends were jerks when I first met
them. But sometimes people just get nervous, and you and your partner
and your friends have to work out the kinks.
5. You were on an airplane and started fighting. Why? Who knows why? Because there weren't little TVs on the plane, because there were
little TVs but you only had one set of headphones, because you got the
last bag of peanuts and didn't want to share. There are plenty of
reasons to fight on a plane (and even worse, you have nowhere to retreat
to because you're sitting next to each other no matter what), so if you
can hit the tarmac still wanting to bone and hold hands, you're aces.
6. Navigating an IKEA together. Even
just being in an IKEA for more than five minutes with a loved one can
be tragic, so getting through that without a blow-up in the lamp section
will prove you have something real. Bonus points: If you can put a dresser together, you're basically already on your 30th anniversary. True fact.
7. Going to a party where they know everyone and you don't. I
know this is just awkward, but if you're willing to go through
the social nightmare that is eating chips out of boredom, sitting on an
empty couch by yourself, and laughing at inside jokes you couldn't
possibly understand because you love the person that much, I do not
worry for your future.
8. Being at a wedding together and having it not be weird. It's
totally normal to be at a point in a relationship where being at a
wedding together is mostly full of you staring at each other awkwardly.
However, if you can openly watch two people committing their lives to
one another and both feel like it's something wonderful you get to share
together instead of something you want to dodge, that's a good sign.
9. Figuring out how to decorate your shared apartment.
I don't know if two people have ever had exactly the same decorating
style in the history of couples ever, so agreeing that, "OK, so now our
dining room table is going to be ugly in my eyes for all of eternity but
you think it's gorgeous" is a sign you're healthy people.
10. When both of you haven't eaten all day and neither of you knows what you want to eat. This
could so easily turn into a murder/suicide situation that if one of you
is able to grab the phone and order pizza (and you both realize you
both really wanted pizza this whole time), you should just get married
right then and use the pizza menu as a ring (somehow).
From:
Cosmopolitan
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