Day 7: What do you think are the most important things to make a relationship work?
First of all, this was more or less in that other meme, and I don't have anything else to say about it, really. I hope that thing I used to have well-meaning friends tell me all the time is true, that "it happens once you stop looking for it", because I am not looking for that shit. I took down the only two dating profiles I had up, and I haven't touched Craigslist personals with a barge pole for a long time now. It feels liberating not to be paying any attention to the seeking of a ... what? A fling? A partner? A date? Any of the above. I have enough other things to be thinking about.
Second -- man, I feel like
springheel_jack said everything there was to say on this in
his answer to this topic, which I thought was hella true, thoughtful, and also beautiful.