This is an excellent opportunity to tell your partner that you love them! 

I’ll be honest with you guys: I am the least romantic person you’ll ever meet. I’ve never dreamed about finding true love and living happily ever after. It’s not that I didn’t believe in it; it just wasn’t on my list of priorities or goals for my life. A bit of a disclaimer here: I never criticized or belittled any of my friends for wanting that fairytale to come alive; in fact, I always rooted for them, but it was never something I thought I would find in this lifetime. Most people would have just called me a cynic, which I was, and frankly, I still am in some capacity. 

However, as many of you probably have experienced at some point, life has a way of surprising us and throwing our perfectly scheduled plans in the trash. So yes, I fell in love. Awful, isn’t it? Completely inconvenient. I had scheduled some time to be alone and move into the center of the Earth, and now I can’t. Bummer. 

Much to the dismay of my inner cynic, I actually enjoy being in love. Many people would think I’m insane for coming to that realization just now, and they are probably right, but the thing is, I only started enjoying it when I realized I didn’t need to stop being who I was to be with someone else. The right person loves you for who you already are and always gets the best out of you. You make each other better. Even though there’s always room for improvement and to try to be your best self, that doesn’t imply changing your entire personality to another person’s liking.

Every couple is different, and I was also afraid of not being able to behave, talk, and act like other couples I had seen. But no one says that you or I have to be like everyone else. Each couple is unique and has to find their own rhythm, their own traditions, their own special ways to show each other how very much in love they are. When that finally sank in, I felt a lot more comfortable and ready to give my best to the relationship. 

Does that mean that I’m a hopeless romantic now? No. I still believe that I could be just as happy alone. What it means is that there are many ways of being happy, and falling in love is only one of the many, and one that I’m liking a lot. So take this opportunity to sit beside your partner, tell them that you love them, and then laugh together at these couple-y memes in store for you!