Each pair must have experienced those moments when some trifle or other proclaims loudly that a new degree of intimacy has been reached. Some of these events are widely known and instantly recognized, like meeting each other’s friends and parents, others are very personal ones different from couple to couple. Yet there are small but sure signs that you have become closer still in terms of sex, understanding and mutual acceptance – and they are pretty funny! Check your level of relationship and see what may await you in future.
- You send texts without editing them several times over. You used to compose messages that were clever and intriguing with the right touch of eroticism; now you tend to say things directly and send messages without re-reading.
- You prefer to pre-order dating menus. You state clearly what you would like to eat instead of letting him do the ordering – and it isn’t always classy. You both eat hurriedly when you feel like it and never mind if you see each other smeared with ketchup – it’s just extra fun!
- You accept his partiality to Hermione Granger (just as he knows your preference in male actors) and you may even have standing jokes about how happy you would be if your favorites starred together in a romantic movie.
- You let him see yourself when you are not made up. There was an occasion when he assured you that you look fine even before you applied makeup, and you believed him, so now you can afford to be a little bit more negligent about making your face and shaving your legs.
- You take pleasure in sleeping together with him. And it is about sleeping, not about having sex. This point when you decide that you can pass sex by in order to enjoy a bit of snuggling and a long sweet sleep leaving you rested and fresh in the morning tells you that you have become closer still.
- You don’t mind if the lights are on during sex. Sex no longer has strings attached to it, like downing a few drinks or dowsing the lights. Maybe you’ve already discovered that getting undressed in the full view of each other is even more exciting.
- You can cry or be angry freely before him. There comes a time when you can break down in his presence, or come out tearfully romantic – cry over a heart-rending movie, because you know it’s perfectly all right by him.
- You have a store of tampons at his apartment, and his spare boxers are at yours. You have to be comfortable, don’t you? It’s only logical that you should – it has come to that.
- Spanx in full view. Maybe he never suspected this, but by now such things are taken in the stride.
- You both want sex even on your period. No reason not to go at it, absolutely. Go ahead and do it, see if you like it notwithstanding.
- You let him browse through your school yearbooks. Haircut and clothes all wrong? Yet he’s excited over the way you looked. Well, taken by and large, you would have been excited over such a man at that time, wouldn’t you?
- You don’t mind his using your toothbrush (or vice versa). You’ve been all over each other so often, will you really grudge him the use of your own personal toothbrush in an emergency?
- Your credit card bills are open for his inspection (and vice versa). So now he knows what you splurge on, and his expenses also come into the light. Does any of you freak out at that?
- Leaving the bathroom door open when you go in. Maybe this is taking it too far for some, but on the other hand it really signifies the next level of closeness. You may find it a pleasantly coy and helpful arrangement, laden with warm intimacy.
