Thursday, November 24, 2005
why can't relationships come with a gap year?
why is it when you finish school people encourage you to take a gap year to go an explore the world. why don't gap years come with all stages of life. more importantly, why don't relationships come with a gap year?!?!? a chance to go off and explore greener pastures, to sow some of them wild oats before you come back and start the next phase.
Want to backpack through europe while she wants to go study interperative dance with a pigmi tribe in africa? (trust me, this stuff happens) then call a gap year.
want to help a set of poor defenseless sweedish twins navigate their way around australia while she studies for her MBA? then call a gap year.
Explore, grow and come back better for the journey.
Say it with me people.... "Gap year!"
POSTED BY THE ZERO MOVEMENT AT 7:49 PM
a gap could be possible but if you fall in love or your partner falls in love with someone else while you are on your gap year then somebody gets hurt!
in the middle of a gap year (actually a gap 2 years but who's counting) Its hard, but I'm having fun and so's he. I can't afford to travel when he wanted to, I started a business instead. We would have resented each other if we hadn't gone our own ways.
Can't say what its gonna be like when he gets back, but our communication has improved 100% since we started our ventures, and I think we'll be both better for the gap time. Everyone needs to experience something special thats just theirs, a gap gives you that chance.
I dont think it is necessary. If you know yourself and respect your partner then you wont need a break. I think the real issue is that people need to learn that it is okay to be alone, and to only enter a relationship when you both know what you want.
i'm starting the gap year right now.
My fiance and i had 6 weeks gap and did exactly as crazylady and the others said with their other halves. :) it was the best thing..
No-way i would hate that. If you need to have a gap.there something wrong there? It's cool to have a girls night out or a weekend away, But weeks or months thats when problems start or already have started.
relationships are being together not seperated i would hate that.
my boyfriend and i had a gap 6 months, now were back together and our relationship is wild!!
Let 'em go, if they come back they're yours if not they never were.
My boyfriend and I had a Gap 2 months. It was awesome we both dated other people and got to know ourselves better and both came to realise we loved each other and wanted to be together. If he hadn't been for having a gap we would always doubt it. I think all relationships need a gap.