working with the boyfriend

We are all too familiar with the challenges as couples, whether or not you are attached. Deny all you want that the 'Honeymoon period' is all but an excuse for the lack of effort in a relationship but it's really not. I'm not advocating that your romance dies right then and there beyond 3 months...you can never put a number to it... besides, different couple, different story. But by inviting 'business' to the party just brings it to a whole different level, I promise you. 

Before you imagine that my relationship is flashing red, it's not. Just another of my mid-day musing (:

I've been riding on this exhilarating up and down roller-coaster entrepreneurial road with the boyfriend since last year. When it comes to ups and downs, it can literally mean taking bottomless dips at certain points. Maybe you understand, maybe you don't. It goes beyond trivial bickers. In tough times, arguments can get personal...and nasty. Every couple who works together gets there eventually, like it or not. We cannot seem to differentiate our roles as partners and lovers, we simply forget we rely on each other not just professionally but emotionally too. 

It doesn't help with a Success story like Donald Trump confirming the fact that 'pretty soon you don't feel the same about your wife when she's the same person you deal with in the day and back home'. Not making me feel any better about our future - at all.

But then again, which relationship is a bed of roses? Hardly.

It all starts with putting the 'We' before 'Me' (:

I have never been happier working with the love of my life. Nothing beats the feeling of ease and familiarity of the person you adore so much amidst the stresses of work. Sometimes it can get a bit much - of seeing each other day-in-day-out 24/7, but that's just my hormones talking. In a way, working together keeps us grounded and pulls us closer because of the conscious effort of building our future together. Also, it may sound cheesy but stealing a glance or two keeps me going at work everyday too :P