Does this sound like a bad idea?

ClassicRockerDad
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 20:38:02 +0000

There is way too much melodrama on this thread.

I’ve been in my long-term relationship for with DW for 34 years. I think it’s all very simple.

If you’re in a relationship with someone who you see as your life partner and that relationship isn’t more important to you than ANY other consideration, than you are not IN a long-term relationship.

That holds true if you’re 18 and if your 80.

IMHO, you take the relationship as a given and work together from there to figure out how to optimize the balance between your joint needs. OP, I think you’ve done some of that (except for the rent part which either I don’t understand or is just bizzare), and you’ll just have to see if the practicalities are working for you or if some other arrangement needs to be made.

Given facebook, skype, free-wifi, unlimited minutes, etc. the relationship is not as hard to manage as it used to be.