
Originally Posted by
Ana
Does your partner have a personality very similar to yours or complimentary to it (having some fundamental similarities but important differences that help diversity your relationship)?
How did you meet (how old were you) and when did you realize you wanted to make a commitment?
DH is my polar opposite. He's an engineer and extremely logical, and I'm...not. While it can be a crazy ride sometimes it mostly works well because we both help each other to see different viewpoints on things and/or ways of doing things. I guess on things like raising kids, though, we have similar viewpoints, so we're not totally opposite. It works.
We met when he was 17 and I was 18, starting dating a year later, and we married 8 years after that and just celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary last month. *I* was ready to commit 2 or 3 years into the relationship, DH was not
It worked out, though, and that was one of those "opposite" things that I can look back on and say he was probably (*probably*
right about.
"A bicycle does get you there and more. And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun."