Signs You And Your Partner Need A Few Days Apart (So You Don’t Kill Each Other) - Page 8

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It’s perfectly normal to need time apart from your partner. Very few couples can be together day after day for years and not get a little annoyed at one another. Think about it: you probably get annoyed at your best friend who you only see twice a month, and who you adore! It’s only natural you’d need space from your partner whom you live with or see daily. It doesn’t mean that you don’t love him, or that you’re no longer compatible. It just means that, since you are two separate human beings, you’re bound to have different opinions, preferences, likes, and dislikes. And sometimes, you just want the space to have things your way—sometimes, you don’t want to compromise on where you eat or what time you go to sleep. Sometimes you need to be selfish. Here are signs you and your partner need a few days apart (or you might kill each other).

His breathing annoys you

You swear his breathing has gotten louder. Did he always breathe so damn loud? And what about that wheezing sound? Where the hell did that come from? I can’t even hear my own thoughts!

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Your blood boils when he leaves a dish out

When he leaves so much as one dish out or one item of clothing on the floor, you become filled with the same rage with which you would be over someone spitting on your grandmother’s grave.

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You go to sleep before he comes home

You won’t wait up even twenty minutes for a chance to chat with your man when he gets home. In fact, if you’re being honest, you put yourself to bed before you’re tired, so you can pretend to be asleep when your boyfriend gets back.

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You don’t want him to wake you to cuddle

If your boyfriend wakes you to cuddle (something you used to find sweet and endearing) you look at him with daggers in your eyes.

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You’re only pretending to listen

When your guy tells you about his day or tells an animated story, you perfectly time your “Uh-uhs” and “Ooooh wows” just right so that he thinks you’re listening. When did his stories get so long?

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You don’t want to give him a ride

Remember the days when you’d get up at 4 am to take your guys to the airport, and you’d never let him take a cab? Now if asks you to take him anywhere, even when there is no traffic, and it’s convenient for you, you roll your eyes. You hand him cash for a taxi.

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You tense up when you hear his car

When you hear his car in the driveway, his keys in the door and his footsteps in the hallway, your entire body tenses up the way it does before you get the flu shot.

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You won’t wait to eat with him

There was a time when you would wait until 1 in the morning to eat dinner with your man after he finished his late night shift at work. Now, if he asks you to wait 15 minutes, you groan like this is a major annoyance.

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You care way too much about what movie you watch

You fight him on what movie you two will watch with the passion usually reserved for legal cases. Why? Because his company isn’t, at the moment, enough to make up for a bad movie.

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You talk him out of joining you somewhere

When your guy takes an interest in coming with you somewhere, you insist, “Oh. It’ll be boring for you. You won’t like it. And I need to run errands after so you’ll be stuck with me.”

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You try to get him out of the house

You peruse the local calendar of events suggesting things your man should go to…solo. What you wouldn’t give to have the place to yourself for a Saturday!

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You sleep on the edge of the bed

You don’t think it’s cute when his knees touch yours in the middle of the night—you think he hogs the bed, and you will sleep on the edge of it in protest!

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His phone calls feel like a waste of time

You used to pause important tasks to talk to your man. Now, if he calls while you’re watching paint dry you think, “Ugh. What!”

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You want to move to an all women’s colony

Most of what your partner does these days has you dreaming of living in an all women’s colony. You’re even considering which of your friends you would make your wife—you’re not gay, but at least, your friend would clean up after herself!