Top 8 Signs That You’re Getting Comfortable in Your Relationship

At the beginning of a relationship, you’re on Boy Scout behaviour. You shower and shave before every date, you pick up the tab, and you clean before she comes over and deletes your search history just in case she borrows your computer.

As months pass and you’re still tolerating each other’s existence, you begin to get fuzzy on your boundaries, and by the time the honeymoon phase is over, all bets are off. Comfort outweighs sexiness or the need to impress, so out go the niceties and in the morning breath make outs and pube-clogged shower drains.

If you and your partner have no problem letting the dirty, disgusting, despicable things you once did in private become public affairs, it may be time to evaluate exactly how extensive your comfort zone is. Here are eight signs you’re too comfortable in your relationship and need to rekindle the mystery.

1. Date nights

Eating out and going to a movie can get expensive, not to mention all the energy it takes getting ready to go out. Ordering takeout and eating on the couch in front of the TV in sweats is what works.

2. Bodily Functions Are Fair Game

First you go out of your way to make sure each other never sees, hear, or smells anything that reveals you’re humans and not genitalia-less Barbie and Ken dolls. When you do start farting and belching openly, each infraction is followed by profuse apologies. But then before you know it, all manners have gone up in a cloud of flatulence and every unappealing bodily function you can think of is now for public couple consumption. Talking about your mutual constipation is the height of intimacy.

3. Your Hobbies Include Popping Pimples and Peeling Sunburns

Grooming each other like apes is appropriate under very few conditions (namely: when you’re an ape). Back in the day, your idea of a fun time together involved romantic dinners and sneaky hookups in public places. Now it’s helping each other peel crusty sunburns and pop hard-to-reach pimples. Who says romance is dead?

4. You Have Conversations in the Bathroom

This offense occurs in many forms: phone calls from the toilet, texting from the toilet, peeing with the door open, peeing while someone is in the shower, peeing in the shower while you’re showering together, and, well, we won’t talk about anything beyond urination – you get the point.

5. Long hair, don’t care

Shaving, waxing and threading are only for extremely special occasions. Just don’t fall into any negative habits that can seriously harm your love. So don’t embarrass with your long hair.

6. You Never Try To Impress Each Other

A long-term relationship is not an excuse to let everything go. One of the major perks of couple hood does not need to be red carpet ready at all times, but that doesn’t give you carte blanche to look homeless. Don’t forego basic hygiene and schlump around in hole-riddled tighty-whiteys just because you’ve found someone who doesn’t recoil at the sight of you naked. You both deserve better. Get things under control before you reach the point of no return.

7. Jealous not-so-much

He went out for lunch with a female co-worker and you’re more interested in finding out what he ate rather than what they talked about.

8. Weight Gain Isn’t A Big Deal

In this media-driven, image-obsessed world, we all strive to have the best bodies. Men stuff their faces with protein, women eat carrots, and everyone kills themselves at the gym. These strategies are effective for the beginning of a relationship, but once you’re deep in one, laziness inevitably sets in. When you’re in a relationship, you may notice changes in your significant other’s body over time. Maybe your arm sits differently on their waist, maybe you notice a pooch forming when you’re naked, or maybe you find you need to buy a bigger sized shirt than last year for this year’s Christmas present. But weight doesn’t matter. You still remember them exactly how they were when you first met, and you still love them with the extra pounds.