Love trap.

One of the best things about the early stages of a relationship is being able to hide what you don't like about yourself, and be whoever you want to be. But why is it that the longer you're in a relationship the seemingly harder it gets to maintain what you had in the first place?
Girls can't remain mysterious and sexy ten years into a relationship can they? Or is it that we can, but we can't be bothered? Personally, two years into a relationship hasn't shown much loss of effort either way, and the day that standards start to tumble will be a sad day.
It took me weeks to go for a wee when in my boyfriend's company, and months to eat in front of him, but now I happily scoff my face as if it were my last meal in his (probably not so willing) company.
I remember the first time I really let my guard down in a relationship, it was about 4 months in, and we'd gone away together. It was winter, and I had a horrendous cold. My boyfriend had to blow my nose for me in the middle of the night and at the time it wasn't a big deal - but really, it probably was.
When do we have to give up the facade? A woman's beauty regime is found out eventually and it can become tiring maintaining a good mood all of the time.
And don't forget the deep dark secret we like to keep to ourselves - the menstrual cycle .
I can only imagine what it must be like to cohabit with a partner; soon enough women have to shave their legs. In my opinion, if you want romance to die, put two people in the same house together.
However, this is quite a catch 22, anything that's seen to help a relationship is good, but the closer two people get, the more comfortable things get, and comfort can be bad (and in the case of guys, comfort = loosening belts after meals).
Why is it that we show our true colours only when we're really close to someone?
Do we become less attractive to the opposite sex once we reveal our true selves? The whole reason two people attract is because of mystery, mental undressing and curiosity. It would be a certain conversation killer if we opened on a first date with 'I'm single, I like to read...I snore, squeeze spots and when Sex And The City's on, I mouth all of the words.' We seem to think it's a better idea to let people find this out by themselves.
It would be good to wake up with straight hair and perfect make up and minty breath, but one thing that really evolves over time is the less these things seem to matter.