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Essay On Superficial Routine

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Superficial Routine
People tend to change. With that, changes their thoughts and interests. And when you go through your life doing the same thing over and over again, it is obviously going to start becoming monotonous. Wake up, eat breakfast, drop the kids at school, go to work, come home, have dinner, go to sleep and continue this day on and day out. If this is your routine, then life is bound to get boring.
Often the stiffness in a relationship grows so strong due to this monotone that partners find themselves going through the motions. The customs have lost their meaning and create more bitterness. They blame their partners for the lack of adventure in their lives when in fact it takes an effort from both parties in keeping their marriage and life interesting.
Fight or Flight?
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Interdependence
You holdon to the lessons you have learned at each stage of your relationship and bring them forward as you grow – you are in one stage or any other at any given time with bits of the others thrown in for good measure.
Now that you realize that you have learned to overcome your differences and have found a deep, strong, long-lasting connection, you’ll reach a further liberating conclusion: that the two of you have the power to change something in this world. You two are now one with each other and it will feel like there is nothing in this world that you two cannot conquer if you put your minds in it together.
You are not just going along together through this life for the sake of it, but you live in a partnership for the sake of a greater cause. It might be that you work together, write together, create something together, it could be anything. But it’s when you start to function as a whole, having surpassed all the previous stages, that you can say with 100% certainty that "this is the person for

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