I've always been of the opinion that any relationship could find a way to work if both sides were committed to it and they weren't completely clueless about how communicate. The ones that fail are the ones who reach a point where they will not or cannot compromise; when they believe it would be more worthwhile to search for a better relationship than try to repair the current.
Sometimes its a matter of not knowing how to compromise, sometimes its an idea of how a relationship should be that can't be given up, sometimes a matter of "who we are" that we can't betray.
If I were to describe what my perfect man would be in this light, it would a
Last Friday or Thursday (don't remember which) this girl came up to me and my friends and started telling us a Christmas story. I thought it was really good so I scoured the internet for a copy, and although its a little different, It's basically the same story and I thought I'd share it with you:
Once there was a store that sold lots of jingle bells---and only jingle bells. As the customers came in, and picked the jingle bells up, the bells would jingle their best, hoping that they would be taken to a nice warm loving home. The littlest jingle bell had many problems. Customers would pick it up, and it would ring for them with all it's might
You know you've been reading too much twilight when you see two teeny tiny little bite marks on your hand and think vampires before you think spiders.
I'm reeaaally tired...