We’ve probably been in one of those relationships before, right? 

The one in which all the honeymoon phase starts to die out. The weekly flowers start turning into monthly flowers. The monthly flowers turn into occasional flowers. 

The sex everywhere possibly starts turning into sex now and then. Potentially sex every time you’re in the mood. 

What happens then? Is that when you recognize that maybe it was just lust? If you only receive flowers to grab your attention, what do you do afterward? What’s the follow up to this? If you only have sex to de-stress, what happens later? 

Maybe I’m just bitter because the first couple times I was so consistently cheesy, it never worked out. I realized that always having pretty flowers in a girl’s kitchen wasn’t going force her to love me. Maybe I realized that opening the car door would just get old and embarrassing after a while. 

Maybe because it didn’t work for me, I’m assuming it won’t work out for anybody. That’s probably it. It’s hard to imagine a relationship in which the cheesiness doesn’t stop because what happens when you run into your first disagreement? Your first fight? What happens then when the cheesiness suddenly has to go?

How do you overcome those first challenges? 

I thought maybe before I had all the answers, but learning to battle with my ego had made me realize I have none.