Dance with me

To make or to break?
Written @ 17:27 on Sunday, Mar. 02, 2008

He thought that everything was fine with her. She had agreed and told him to go ahead and put the deposit for the place. He seriously thought that that was the end of their house-hunting.

He didn't know what to say or response to all the things that she had said. In fact it was one of the most unlikely things that he had expected to hear from her at seven in the morning, just before he was due to leave for work.

As much as all the 'issues' that she had mentioned were reasonable, and even though he knew where her argument was coming from.... he still didn't understand. He didn't understand how a woman who has no qualms about moving from one country to another can have so much difficulty moving only twenty minutes away from where she was right now. What is it about the city that draws her so tightly to its grasp?

She didn't know how to explain it to him. How does one explain the love that a city girl has for the city to a country boy? How? The lights, the activities, the habour, the foreshore, the nightlife, the shops, the fact that everything that one needs is simply a ten-minute drive away and not half an hour away!

She wished she knew the answer to their problem at hand. She wished he had an answer to their problem at hand. But he didn't either. She had tried so very hard at accepting this move, and yet no matter how much she tried to shelf all her fears away, they kept re-emerging.

She always knew that 'location' was going to be a major issue between the two of them. What did one expect from the relationship of a city girl and a country boy? It didn't matter whether they were living together now before or after marriage, and perhaps it was better that they resolve this now rather than later.

The next question that comes after this is: Can one find a reasonable solution to this problem? Where is the meeting point? When both parties feel as strongly as they feel about their individual opinions, is there even a meeting point? Is this going to make or break this relationship?

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