Not ready to rush down the aisle? Don't worry, ELLE has 10 reasons to hold off!
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6. Fountain of youth: When reminiscing with your partner, you can exaggerate or have selective memories about your youthful days -- since they were so long before you met. "I was so skinny in college," "I used to dress much more provocatively," or "I was so much more popular with the opposite sex back then," adds to the myth and the mystery. Thank goodness all your lovely but loser exes are locked away in photograph albums.
7. You are secure with your insecurities: You've been there, done that, and screwed it up so many times that you don't even have to bother hiding your sordid fears. At a certain age, jealousy and vanity actually seem cute.
8. Technophilia: Combining long lives usually involves upgrading technology, since chances are one of you has already acquired a decent CD player, television, DVD player, fax, laptop, laser printer, iPod, cell phone, BlackBerry, TiVo, and top-of-the-line blow dryer.
9. Therapy pays off: All that time and money spent on psychoanalysis, Alcoholics Anonymous, transactional analysis, est, and Gestalt, watching Oprah and Dr. Phil, and taking yoga, Pilates, and meditation classes has clearly sunk into your system. When steamed or upset, you now know how to say, "I think I'll go take a walk to cool off, so I don't kill you," "Perhaps we shouldn't bring seven years of hostility into an argument about a toaster oven," or "I'm going to make a shrink appointment now."
10. War stories: You've been around the block. Did it in an elevator. A plane bathroom. The beach. This lead to a sprained ankle, angry passengers hoping up and down, and sand in your shoes for six months after the passion ended. You've finally learned it's much more comfortable with someone you love. In a bed. Lying down.
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