Expectations

When discussing the dynamic of a relationship, every girl seems to have a different expectation. I suppose it depends on your previous experience, your current status in life, and how deluded the media has made you whilst growing up.
Some girls have absolutely NO expectation of their signifigant others and in this way avoid disappointment. However, I can only imagine that deep down, it takes a lot of will to strike all possible expectation from the slate.
Some girls are constantly disappointed because their expectation is shaped by illusion. Films and television don't really depict the day in and day out of a relationship and therefore only focus on the 4 minutes of romance.
I think my expectation of marriage had a lot to do with those false expectations. I knew there would be "hard times." and that we would have our fights. I didn't realize how easy it was to get into a routine and how difficult it was to get out of that routine. Bad habits form early and you have to regrow yourself and your marriage at the same time.
Supposedly it takes seven years. One and a half years down.:)