Mature Relationships

I like the idea of running my own business, from my own home, or perhaps living over the top of a family business like my great grandfather did in Webster Groves. The idea of being with the person I love full time and working together on something, or at least side by side appeals to me. It always has.

It appears this is not going to be something I ever really do, but I have a friend who has managed a pretty fair form of this. He sits on his patio, drinking a glass of wine working away while his other half sits not too far away working too. Both work very hard and they are not always at home, but they come as close to my idea of perfection as anyone I have ever seen.

Perhaps these are things that develop when people connect later in life and both of them are bright, innovative souls who are not afraid of hard work. After all, it takes a lot of initiative to be your own boss and be successful. It also takes two mature individuals who are willing to make a conscious effort at making a relationship work. Neither one can expect the other to simply fall in with their plans and both must already be in relatively healthy life styles, both mentally and physically. Relationships work best if the baggage is emptied prior to their beginning.

Right now, when my own life is so topsy-turvy, I cannot ever see myself being in such a wonderful place, but I can dream of it and watching how it appears to work for someone else brings me an enormous amount of pleasure.