March celebrates 5years with my wonderful boyfriend. So I thought id share my experience and thoughts on how to survive a 5 year relationship with moving across the world twice.

We started a relationship at a young age, we are each others first love and in a lot of worlds we should have been destined to fail. But yet here we are.

When you meet someone while still in your teens, you grow together and your relationship grows so the person you were talking to 5years ago, isn’t essentially the same person youre talking to now.

For example the number one cliché way to keep your relationship strong is Communication, however that is a Pisces and Taurus’s weakness. So we are still learning how to combat new situations, but its important that we discuss our feelings and ways to handle things. It not only helps us grow as individuals it helps us grow as people.

Along with just communicating in general my second tip for a successful relationship is talking about SEX. As taboo as the world has made it, don’t make it taboo in your relationship, talk about what you like, don’t like. Make it comfortable to experiment and spice things up. If you don’t tell your other half what you like, how are you expecting them to know? If you talk openly about sex, your sex life becomes one that you want.

Number 3 on my list of tips is dates, its important to take time and still go on dates, no matter how many years you’ve been together. We fell out of the habit of doing date nights and making time for us as a couple when we were financially struggling but now we save a little extra each pay to ensure that we do make time to step outside the house, away from the distractions so we can focus on each other.

My last tip for surviving a relationship is take time for yourself too. I remember when me and my boyfriend moved in together and I was so worried if we were both home I wouldn’t be able to watch my videos in my own time, but that first day watching him play his video games as I watched my videos I realised this was what a relationship should be. Its okay to focus on you in your relationship too. I read before bed every night now and having him respect that and allow me to take time to do that means the world to me as a human, and makes me a better person to be around too.

Now my relationship isn’t perfect, yes we argue, yes we(i) cry, yes we are still working on things because like I said, we started dating when we were young, we’ve both grown and as life shows us new things we become new people. But we’re growing together, which is something we will continue to do, hopefully till we’re grey and old.