Jacqueline Elliott argues that partners outgrow each other when conversations stay shallow. If one person only talks about kids while the other shares bigger ambitions, both feel lost and the relationship loses its spark.
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You're going to look up one day and your guy isn't going to be attracted to you anymore. He's gonna be like, fuck that. Well, the thing is, he's gonna, he's gonna outgrow you. There's nothing wrong with being a house mom and taking care of your kids and doing that. But the thing is that you also have to have those conversations that allow them to grow. Because, I mean, I loved taking care of my kids when I took care of my kids, but if I didn't feel like I was growing and I didn't feel like I can have a conversation with him, and all I did, all he did was talk to everybody else about all the cool stuff he was doing, and all I did was talk about our kids. And we felt like we didn't have any, any conversations above five years old. Then I, like, I was lost. And he did too. The last thing you want is for that newness to go, to wear off.