I have been with my boyfriend for a year now. I am happy whenever i am with him (usually if hes not being a jerk i guess). The end of my lease is coming up soon (december 1st is when we moved in 2 years ago). We have been talking about moving in together. While we have been talking about moving into a 4 br, with MS and JC in one room, MG and AW in the other 2 rooms (separate, we arent in dorms anymore!), i am still slightly petrified of the entire situation.
It will be our space. Our room. Our closet. Our bed. singular.
That is scary. Its not like i havent shared bed’s before. In college i spent every night in either my bed or my then boyfriend’s bed, and 9 times out of 10 he was there with me. That was a twin XL. It will be a bed that you can roll and not worry (too much) about elbowing your partner in the eye or kneeing them in the privates. This is much more grown up. Isn’t it funny how i know that i am a serial monogamist, yet still fear the concept of moving in with someone? I know that these arent games anymore. You dont have to meet each other after 4-5 hours at the train station for a few days together, then, once those precious few days drain away, watch them walk to a train that will swallow them up until the next time they visit. You dont have to spend summers away from eachother. Now i will be *living* with this S.O.
Other than spending money on college, i have not invested so much in my future. Unless we do something to stop it, moving in with this man will set things in motion, a Rube Goldberg machine to think of it in a much more dramatic fashion. To everyone else, the process could be completed in 100 fewer steps: Move in, get engaged, marry, buy a house, have kids, grow old (the “american dream” right?). But in my head the pendulums are poised to swing, balls hovering over ramps leading to a string waiting to be clipped. This can only run successfully through the end or one piece will be a millimeter off and i will have to start all over again. Its the starting over that scares me the most. Any hiccup in this grandiose machine and it could fall to pieces.
It’s the pondering that makes me lose all my confidence. I really do love him.
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