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“I want to grow old with you”—it’s a phrase we hear in love songs, poems, letters and novels throughout our lives. When we first hear it, we think, “I don’t want to ever get old at all so, why does it matter with whom I do it?” But the truth is you’ll be very lucky if you do get to grow old because that means you get more time on this earth to try the things you want to try. Furthermore, if you’re very lucky, you can find someone who makes the lows not so low, the highs even higher, and the mundane moments actually rather fun. You’ll be wrinkly one day, so you may as well be wrinkly with somebody who makes you laugh and smile. Here are signs you’re going to grow old together and love it.

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You can be broke together

You can be (and have been) totally broke together and it didn’t affect your happiness level at all. You are so happy together that things like fancy vacations and expensive meals are barely cherries on top of what’s already an incredible sundae.

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Sex; you can take it or leave it (but it’s fun when it happens!)

If you can’t have sex for a while due to scheduling conflicts, it doesn’t affect how emotionally connected you feel in the slightest. That being said, when you do have sex, it never gets old or stops being a total blast.

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You say some weird stuff around each other

If somebody recorded some of the things you say around each other and played them back to you, you’d be pretty confused. But you have your own language, and when you speak it, nothing sounds weird.

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You’d be happy living anywhere together

Name a place, and you’d be happy living there, so long as it was together. You can imagine yourselves living in a tiny cabin in Alaska and fishing for your dinner or an apartment over a dive bar in New York. It’ll be fun because you’ll be together.

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And this person is your priority over all else

You would follow this person to the ends of the earth because you know that nothing—not your career or your social life—could make you as happy as they do. This person is the whole point, and you see that so clearly.

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Being with them feels like being alone in a good way

You are so bonded that being with your partner feels like you’re just with yourself. You don’t need to alter anything you do or say or feel or think—you can be truly you at all times and everything flows smoothly.