The "Key" To A Stronger Relationship
When giving your mate the key to your home, is it the same as giving them the full key to your heart? When giving your heart to someone, there is a slight amount of caution involved, especially if you’ve ever been in a relationship and it failed.
But why does a key mean so much? When my girlfriend and I first started to get closer I would spend the night over her house constantly as well as her spending the night over mine. Technically, we’d already moved in with each other. We were spending the night with one another for over nine months. This wasn’t a once in a while spend the night type of thing, it was a spend the night every single night type of thing.
The transition to roommates didn’t seem so awkward as most people expect it to seem, even though we were so happy to be sharing a place together. So what the hell does a key mean? When does symbolism go so far as to scare individuals off with a piece of metal. The same goes with white, diamond and crosses. You guessed it: A wedding. Why do men throw up, pass out and certain women stand up their own weddings? People say that it’s because they are going to be tied down for life. What the hell does that mean when so many people cry at their weddings, say, "I love you," and then get a divorce?
Keys: fully giving up yourself or finding some bullshit to be afraid of? Give your input.
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You ask a tough and interesting question, Mister! :-) I've never given someone a key to my physical place. I've given the keys to my heart a couple times, and would've given the key to the door, but for different reasons it didn't work out. To give someone an actual key, I'd have to be extremely sure that this was the one I was meant to be with. And even if I was sure, I couldn't be sure because that's life, it's a gamble! We make choices every day that affect the outcome, in exactly what ways we shall not know until later--we're not meant to. Time is a healer, and also a revealer. I have to know someone for quite a while before trusting them with the freaking garage door opener...like in Singles. If I was sure, and I knew the person for the requisite amount of time, the key would not even be a big deal. Just a tangible expression/extension of the inner love and comfort level. Until I meet him, as they say in Singles, I'm a self-contained unit. |
