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How My Past Relationships Made Me a Better Partner Today
What my exes taught me about love, growth, and happiness.
Do you celebrate your relationship anniversary? And if so, why? Is it because you want to express how much you cherish your significant other? Or is it something you do simply because it’s what people do? The other day, I came across an article that compared celebrating relationship anniversaries to revisiting the first chapter of your favorite book.
Honestly? I love that analogy.
Not only do I love to reminisce about how I met my wonderful partner, but when I think back, I have to chuckle. Like the first night I spent at his apartment, he returned to find me already asleep after jokingly tossing the covers over me and heading to the bathroom. He thought I was playing along, but no, I had genuinely passed out. Moments like these remind me how incredibly lucky I am to have him in my life. And yet, we don’t celebrate our relationship anniversaries. We never have.
Do anniversaries make love easier?
Am I making life unnecessarily complicated by not marking our love on a specific day? Would it be easier if we did — if it could be planned, scheduled, and expected? More importantly, do we need a designated day to reflect on how much we…
