maybe commitment is the most beautiful thing - by Lilian
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let what you love alter you
A friend of mine has a problem. She wants to have children and she wants to have them soon (like the rest of us, she isn’t getting any younger). She’s in a relationship—not a new one, not an old one—it’s a relationship that’s somewhere in between it all, in that uneasy middle ground: a couple of years long, enough good times to stay together, enough bad times to question whether she should. Her family and her friends think he’s good enough. She isn’t sure what she thinks. Mostly, she thought she’d have figured it out by now. “I thought my life would be different,” she tells me all the time.…
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