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Does contentment really exist?

I have noticed after 4 years in a relationship that the line between contentment and boredom is very fine. Often it is impossible to tell the difference between them most of time, especially between him and me…he just calls it contentment and I call it boredom. Relationships kinda suck.

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Anonymous changed the tags on this post: they were "Year, Boredom, Impossibility, Fine, Line, difference, Call, Contentment, relationship, suck" 11 months, 3 weeks ago.

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An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 3 weeks ago (9 minutes after post)

They are not free, or without maintainance. Sounds like someone got lazy

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11 months, 3 weeks ago (20 minutes after post)

I think we both got VERY lazy :)

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An Unknown Location | 11 months, 3 weeks ago (11 hours, 9 minutes after post)

What you are experiencing isn’t all that unusual,but it’s not neccesarily terminal either. There is a reason you got together in the first place,hopefully it wasn’t only for physical reasons. If you saw something you liked in each other in the begining, think back, those qualities probably still exist. Probably the best antidote for boredom is for both of you to get outside yourselves and to start doing unselfish things for each other. It takes two but sometimes one can start it rolling. Self gratification is a nowhere trip and always eventually leads to dispair in the end.
If there was never much worthwhile you saw in each other in the begining and it was only a matter of convienence then maybe you ought to rethink how you would feel without each other. Many people break up a marriage or relationship only to find themselves getting divorsed again because they didn’t fix their own internal failings, they just changed their surroundings. Finding someone who is compatible and who we like being with alot of the time ( not all the time of course) isn’t that easy to come by.
Do you like each other even though you’re bored?
Like Libragirl said, it’s easy to get complacent and lazy.

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