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December 30th, 2011 at 5:59AM

starkravingdane asked: There's a meme that goes around now and again that starts with "PERFECT COUPLES DON'T EXIS -- " and then has a picture of an allegedly perfect couple, implying that the speaker was cut off and their argument rendered invalid because there is, indeed, a perfect couple. Usually this sort of thing grates on my nerves, but if someone made one about you and Amanda, I'd reblog it in a heartbeat. I am constantly in awe over how amazingly sweet (and yes, perfect) you are together.

We’re not a perfect couple. We’re just a couple. We love each other and we get on each others’ nerves. She grits her teeth when she hears me tell the same story for the dozenth time. I grit my teeth when she tells me it’s time to go jogging (but mostly I go with her anyway). She loves crowds and people, I like solitude and the countryside. She’ll go through hell to avoid the cold. I quite like it.

But she makes me laugh and I’m ridiculously happy when I’m with her. Unless we’re having an argument. We have great and wonderful arguments.

I don’t think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate.