Comic Strips

Its deliberately pitched as ironic. A lot of this "will we / won't we" happens in the first few months, and the author has stretched it for comic effect to juxtapose it with the "time flies" feeling old couples can have looking backwards.

For folks who are used to meeting, dating, and breaking up every few months, a committed relationship can come as something of a shock. I was in and out of relationships for most of my twenties, and I definitely sympathize with the first - like - row of these panels. Finding myself in a happy, committed relationship one day, with a partner who felt the same way was surprising.

But as soon as you're moved in together, its pretty plainly established as serious.

Not everyone prescribes to the concept of state marriage. If they're good without it who cares.

Listen, they're just casually starting a family. No competitive ambitions.

Nonsense. Plenty of people die surrounded by their creditors.

Unless you die at war, or in a hospital during a pandemic, or during a sudden, large natural catastrophe, or...

And then teary and sweaty.

It’s absolutely guaranteed you won’t have the same feelings. People change and the new relationship dopamine wears off after a few years.

However, building a life together is a special thing in its own right and that takes commitment to stay together and work on the relationship when times get tough.

I think that OP is talking about the commitment of marriage more-so than the actual document making it official with the government. I like the comic as a sweet notion of finding love when you weren't looking for it. But a relationship without commitment and without the security that your partner would allow you to grow and change as a person and still stay committed would be hard to stay in realistically.

I would say that even the easiest relationships are work and it's not healthy to always have your eye on the door but what do I know?

That's one way to look at love, but I don't look at it like that.

The social one. I'm an atheist.

Or because they are traumatized from childhood of abandonment and have learned to take the option of being abandoned into their own hands as a self defense mechanism.

I mean not that I’d know from experience.

I'm not sure I'd agree that a relationship with so much uncertaintly is that wholesome. I know I'd lose sleep if my partner kept telling me this is just a for now thing but still expected commitment.

Just giving my perspective m8. You're free to find it only cute and wholesome - your opinion is as valid as mine.

Maybe in 25 years