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"Girl meets boy. Girl dates and falls in love with boy. Boy moves in with girl. Boy tells girl &amp;amp;#8220;I love you, but&amp;amp;#133;&amp;amp;#8221;. Well, it&amp;amp;#8217;s been a little over two months and J and I are still going strong on the cohabitation front. Just a couple weeks ago he really said that to me and I&amp;amp;#8217;m happier than I&amp;amp;#8217;ve ever been. Seriously! Let me explain. You know how sometimes you&amp;amp;#8217;re in a relationship, totally content with the way things are going, but there&amp;amp;#8217;s that one thing you wish you could change about your partner? For me it&amp;amp;#8217;s been little things with ex-boyfriends like &amp;amp;#8220;I wish he would pay more attention to me than his freakin car&amp;amp;#8221; or &amp;amp;#8220;I wish he was nicer to my friends&amp;amp;#8221;. They&amp;amp;#8217;re not total dealbreakers but they&amp;amp;#8217;re the things in the back of your mind that keep bugging you&amp;amp;mdash;maybe it&amp;amp;#8217;s your conscience telling you that person is really not &amp;amp;#8220;the one&amp;amp;#8221;. Well, one night J and I were sitting on the couch just watching TV (our obsession of the moment is Pawn Stars on the History Channel) when he turned to me and said &amp;amp;#8220;I just realized that I don&amp;amp;#8217;t have an &amp;amp;#8216;I love you, but&amp;amp;#133;&amp;amp;#8217; with you.&amp;amp;#8221; He went on to tell me how, in past relationships, he always had that &amp;amp;#8220;I&amp;amp;#8217;m so happy but if I could just fix a, b, and c it&amp;amp;#8217;d be perfect&amp;amp;#8221; feeling. But, with me, there was no &amp;amp;#8220;but&amp;amp;#8221; (wait, not even my passing out in the shower?). He was totally happy with me and our relationship just the way it was. I have to admit&amp;amp;mdash;I totally had a Bridget Jones/Mark Darcy moment right about then. He likes me just as I am? Well, hell, I feel the same way! I love J, too, and there&amp;amp;#8217;s not one thing I would change about him. I never wonder &amp;amp;#8220;what if&amp;amp;#8221; he was just a little different. There is no &amp;amp;#8220;I love you, but&amp;amp;#133;&amp;amp;#8221; anything. So, we hit a point in our relationship where things got really real. Of course living together is a serious matter. But, all of a sudden, I can see past this dating thing like five-ten years down the road. I can see us: engaged, married, dog, kids (well, maybe kids&amp;amp;mdash;I&amp;#x27;ve seen Teen Mom and I&amp;#x27;ve been scarred)&amp;amp;#133; the whole thing. And you know what, J said he sees it all for us too. Okay, okay, I know we&amp;amp;#8217;re totally THAT couple. My apologies. Let me dial down the cheese-factor. Let&amp;#x27;s see. In the past two months we&amp;#x27;ve also nailed down our routine (I get up an hour earlier in the morning so we both have time to get ready and leave together everyday) and we finally decided that, with our schedules and my inability to straighten up during the week, we would get a cleaning person to come twice a month. Hooray! We&amp;#x27;re also on a health-kick right now to gear up for some much-needed vacations in the coming months (stay tuned!): we just joined a gym and have been eating low cal/low fat (J lost 4 lbs in the first 2 days&amp;amp;mdash;not fair!). Yeap, living together is good and, most importantly, NORMAL. And, really, isn&amp;#x27;t that the whole point? Okay, tell me, what&amp;#x27;s been your worst &amp;quot;I love you, but...&amp;quot; in a relationship? Do you have that &amp;quot;what if&amp;quot; feeling with your guy now or are you guys all Bridget Jones/Mark Darcy, too? Did I totally gross you guys out with the mushiness of my relationship? :) More on living with your guy... * The Pros and Cons of Living With Your Guy Before You&amp;#x27;re Engaged * Will Living With Your Boyfriend Hurt Your Chances of Getting Engaged? See What These Guys Think * Is Your Guy Moving In? 6 Ways to Boyfriend-Proof Your Home Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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