love takes time.

i don't understand what the rush is
with relationships these days. i get it,
i'm not there to see everything that goes down.
i've been there with the puppy love and
honeymoon phases of falling in love.
they don't say, 'love makes you do crazy things'
for nothing! But, think about it, if you really
like this person, i mean, really, really like them,
shouldn't you want that feeling to last?
all i'm seeing today is people date for about six months,
then move in together. some have babies within the year
marking the time they've been together.
i'm not against any of this, by all means it's your life.
you do you. if it works, it works and if not, tough luck.
my fiancé and i started living together at year three,
we're on year 7.5, now. i miss that feeling
before we lived together. the one where i couldn't wait to see him.
but really, what's the rush? love takes time.
just like a everything else that becomes a masterpiece,
time is of the essence, right? maybe i'm old-fashioned,
i don't know. i believe that love should be
mysterious and exciting. you shouldn't know every detail
of the timeline to their life on the first few dates.
you learn about each other as you go,
that's what a relationship is. that's what love is.