Tightrope January 21, 2005 ~ 4:13 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackbackYou know, it’s a weird tightrope we walk when we get involved with someone. On the one hand, there’s this sense of relief that you’ve got someone and you can “settle down” (whatever that means), but on the other, you’re never really secure because you’ve always got someone’s feelings to think about. You’ve literally got someone’s heart in your hand, and you have to be careful with it. And if the person who was holding that heart before you wasn’t as careful with it as they should have been, it raises the tightrope another 20 feet. And sometimes takes away the safety net. Is it any wonder that some of us are afraid of heights?
There’s another tightrope when your significant other has kids from a previous relationship. On the one side, you get to hang out with the kids and get to play at being parent or whatever. You get to give them back when they get out of control or you’re tired or whatever. But you don’t really have the right to tell your significant other “Well, this is what I think you should do with them,” because you’re not actually the parent. You don’t get to make decisions.
The whole thing is just a giant pain in the ass sometimes. But you wouldn’t give it up for anything.
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