Relationship Stages

Couples go through different stages in their relationship; nothing starts off successful. You have to work for it, you have to learn how to do things right. You have the honeymoon period where everything is flowers and candy, the learning and growing together period (especially if you are both young) where there's a lot of compromise and sacrifice and you are both in the process of meshing together and making things work, the being slapped with reality period where you're both trying to go through the trials and tribulations of establishing a life together financially and in whatever other aspects, the struggling through life just to get by and make ends meet period, the sticking through all the shit together and being amazed by your perseverance through all the bullshit and fights period, the appreciation period where you've both made it past the hardest parts and are lucky to still have each other (but really the battle is never done, even though the war may be won), and any other stage you make it to, consider yourself the minority.