Oh, anonymenters, I wonder if I'm cut out for long-term relationships. Every time, after a while, I get bored, and then I start resenting the person (who is usually just as lovely as they ever were) because I feel like they're a restriction. There are supposed to be all these compensations for sticking together, but they seem like trade-offs to me, and ones only worth making if you want to achieve some other thing like raising kids. If I don't want kids, why would I want to spend my life with only one person? Or am I terribly shallow for being appalled by the prospect of never sleeping with anyone else ever again? (It's not even so much about the sex as about getting to know someone in that completely absorbed, sharing-each-other way that seems to be taboo if you're not sleeping together.)