If you listen to what TV, movies, and music tells you about relationships it all sounds pretty fake.  There’s either the couple who is super in love and is perfect, or there’s more drama than there is relationship. But if you’ve ever been in a stable relationship (and good for you if you have), you’ll know that it’s somewhere in the middle, hopefully closer to a perfect relationship than the drama. 

I can still distinctly remember my five-year-old self drawing pictures in crayon of my dream man. He was tall with blond hair and a goofy smile. Granted, his smile could have been goofy due to my amateur drawing skills, but the dream for a future with the perfect man was there.