Labels..

This may not be the post you were expecting with that heading above but this has nothing to do with food labels (though maybe some day i might rant about them) it has to do with the labels we give other people. People in relationships will often use a label to define the other person purely out of convenience or because they think they need to. I don’t think that way though.

Whatever term you use, be it partner, girlfriend (or boyfriend), wife (or husband), partner in crime, ball & chain or destroyer of freedoms, they all mean the same thing. The person that you care about, love, want to be with. Whether you are enjoying a meal together, seeing a movie or just getting a hug, it’s about what you feel towards each other, not what other people say or think. The more you spend with this person, the closer your ties with them become, until the lines between a friend and something more blur. Normally this would be the time that the label is used, but does it really matter?

To be honest to everyone about my exact feelings on the subject. I use the term girlfriend for other peoples sake. It doesn’t matter what I was to call her as it doesn’t change my feelings. I could use a word that has no resemblance of girlfriend and it wouldn’t change those feelings. Those words are just purely a label, nothing more, nothing less.

So whenever you use a label that may define a relationship status, do you really need to? Does it really matter? The only thing that should matter is how you feel about each other & what kind of life you want to have together. Those are the things that really matter, all the rest is just not worth worrying about. Apart from coffee… that matters the most in my life.

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