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I’m a 24-year-old girl, engaged to be married this October. My fiancé and I are both ambitious career people–he’s a lawyer and I’m in graphics and advertising. Here’s my question: how do we keep the intimacy in the relationship when we have to spend so much time apart? Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? It makes me feel anxious.
You should feel anxious. You’re sitting on a powder keg.
I know I probably should answer your question a bit more diplomatically, but I think it is probably one of the more serious mistakes people make when assessing how their relationship with another human being is going to pan out.
Let’s put it this way: if sharing expenses, bank accounts, room space, refrigerator, shower and television privileges–if all of these were a turn-on, roommates would be ravaging each other right and left.
Relationship has to be more than finance and having children. What brings two people together is a common passion which is expressed in a common goal.
This is why grown adults who are committed to deep-rooted marriages can go on a movie set together and end up having an affair. The intimacy created by working on the same project is almost overwhelming.
With that in mind, rather than giving up on your relationship or going off and trying to start a rock and roll band together and starve in the street, just develop a side business, a common hobby or some activity which you repeatedly do together and demands the involvement of both of you, and to some degree places you in a bit of jeopardy.
You don’t have to do it more than once a week.
- But you can make every Saturday your day to pursue your garage sale business.
- Sunday afternoon could be the pursuit of arts and crafts, which you both try to market in some capacity.
- Start a blog together.
- Do a podcast about relationships.
Anything you can commit to together which forces you into a mutual sensation of being creative will keep the bark in your spark.
Without that, you can quickly become roomies who discuss bills and occasionally fall into bed with each other if you get horny enough.
When God made man and woman, he placed them in a Garden, and the first thing he gave them was a common occupation.
It makes us hot for each other.
If you have trouble finding something you want to do together, you might consider that to be tell-tale. If your only interest in one another is sex and marriage, it’s a horrible way to begin a life. It has to be sex, marriage plus something else.
And the something else will keep you involved with each other and help you to understand why the sex and marriage are there in the first place.
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