I just told my boyfriend I am moving out.

[DFW]

48. I'd go you one further

Compatibility is THE BIGGEST part of any relationship. My wife and I hit it off the first night we met, but when you're 22, one night stands are not out of the question. She was German, living in (West) Berlin at the time, I was a newly minted college grad living in Philadelphia, where I had gone to school. After 4 years of commuting, she came to spend a year with me (now in Boston) to see if we could get along in a living arrangement, but with the proviso that if it worked out, that I would ultimately make the move to Europe. We didn't even get married until 1982, and even then, it was my brother who invited us to OUR wedding (who has time for stuff like THAT?). At the wedding, my best man remarked that he knew everyone thought we were rushing into this (after 8 years), but he had faith.

We know couples who got married after two years of knowing each other. Some are still together after 30 years, some broke up after less than two. Those who broke up just didn't know enough about each other. Sound familiar?

Wawannabe--be glad for your luck, grieve for a while for what you lost, and then go on to meet that one who turns out to be the one you were really waiting for all this time. Was there, did that. Forty-six years later, still happy that I lucked out. You will be, too.