List #264: The (Not So) GreatThings About Being in a Relationship

The boyfriend and I will be together two years come June. We've been living together for well over a year now. And we do raise a toddler together. Its safe to say we know each other pretty well. Love and quirks and everything in-between.

He's my love. And he really truly is a saint. He puts up with my weird neuroses, my desire to just pinch him at any given time, and my inability to sleep with even the tiniest bit of light shining. There isn't a day that goes by that I am not entirely grateful that our roads in life led us to meet nearly two years ago.

But all that being said, oh there are some tough times when you're in a serious relationship.

Here are mine:

• Sharing a bed when all you really want to do is starfish wide in the middle.
• Giving up and letting someone watch a movie that you came into in the middle.
• Listening to someone chew. Loudly.
• Seeing tissues that don't it to the garbage can.
• Ignoring mugs of tea that pile up on tables and desks.
• Getting up extra early so your loved one can take the later shower.
• Sharing a bathroom.
• Trying to fall asleep when someone has a light on in the room.
• Adjusting thermostats for different body temperatures.
• Meeting in the middle of Night Owl and Early Bird.
• Understanding that you're the only one who will clean the litter box (the cat came with me).
• Growing piles of laundry.
• Conceding music selections.
• Losing closet space and numbers of drawers to store all your regular amounts of stuff.
• Sifting through more mail than you ever thought possible.
• Having far less time to watch mindless television because you can't make your significant other watch hours of Teen Mom. 

Now for every one of the bullets on this list, it's more than likely that the boyfriend could match (or agree with) one for me. Seriously I am no picnic and I'm well aware.

But the little things are there. They are leftover crumbs from previous relationships, personal sensitivities, or just things you didn't really think about when you copied keys and unboxed your life in someone else's. It's just what happens when you're living with someone you love. 

I do plan on writing the (truly) great things about being in a relationship. And yes, the list will genuinely longer. But it's Monday and Mondays are for griping. Please feel free to share your own relationship gripes in the comments.