‘This is a full-time job’: Cheezcake Community Members Share the Most Wholesome and Unexpected Lessons They Have Learned About Love

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Mar 13, 2024 10:00 AM EDT

Even though we are living in an era when the attitude towards love and relationships is a lot different than what it was say, 20 years ago, I still believe we can learn a lot from people's past experiences. Plus, no matter what stage you are in with your relationship, whether you are single, dating for a couple of months, or happily married for 30 years, there is always much to learn.

That is why we wanted to take a moment and create a space for people to share insights they learn from love and life, things that they wanted to get off their chests. The responses to our question were both super wholesome and really funny, which is exactly what you would expect from asking people on the internet a heartfelt question.

Please scroll down to read some of the responses we got, and you might learn a thing or two. When you are done, click here to read about a girl who took upon herself a no-spend challenge for the entire year. 

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  • 01
    CHEEZ burger WHAT IS ONE THING THAT YOU DID NOT EXPECT ABOUT RELATIONSHIP LIFE OR LOVE?
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    lamisi.pr 1. How much lonelier it feels to be with the wrong person compared to being single. 2. Having separate comforters/blankets can save a relationship.
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    still.julie.afterall.theseyrs You must truly be able to love yourself before you can completely love your partner. The relationship you have with yourself is by far the hardest relationship of all.
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    itslarkanna Didn't expect my cat to hate forehead kisses so much, but we're working it on
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    jojosacto Having your own bathroom is priceless.
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    klstewa327 I never expected to still be married 26 years later or that I would love him even more now than I did when we got married. Don't believe all of the negative cop you hear! Is it work? Hell yes! Is it worth it? Hell yes!
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  • 07
    d4nger_d4ze The pregnancy scares
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    oh_its_the_other_thing Love is bottomless. No matter how deeply you've loved, you can always fall deeper.
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  • 09
    anne_nocturne Lots of farts. Multiple farts. ②
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    _desichuw I didn't expect how many sacrifices | had to make in my marriage.
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    sadie.nicole86 I didn't expect time to move so quickly after we had kids.
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    daamo_daamo To have connected with someone in such an intimate level, beyond what I even knew to pray for.
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    bar_literally I am an introvert, and always thought that my social battery would run out even when I'm just at home with my partner. But apparently, I have a whole different battery for him, which never runs out
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  • 14
    brianbyles Kids are the best they will drive you absolutely crazy second of it but you will love every
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  • 15
    zenfroggi756 That I would be so bad at it.
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  • 16
    blank4d I didn't expect to fall in love with an older man and be married 24 years
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  • 17
    kalilacourban Finding it D
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  • 18
    chandrabrown5 Living with someone for 25 years in a committed relationship doesn't mean you know each other.
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    itsajillthing It is a full time job.
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    farklebrains That I would be dating so many different people and how much I have changed and learned more about myself and what I wanted/needed for myself so I could find the right one. And still, is she the right one? She is during this part of my journey. We understand each other. We help each other. We frustrate each other lol, but we communicate about it.
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    Love isn't a Disney fairytale. There's no such thing as 'the one and only'. You sell yourself short when you think this way. Be your individual self so that you have things to talk about. When you do everything together, you have nothing to talk about.
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    natalieg820 Having to clean up after your wife cleans up.
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