DISSATISFIED with your partner and vaguely thinking about breaking up with them? Here are some crap reasons to convince yourself to stay:
Moving house is a massive hassle
On the one hand, being free from the drudgery of your stale, loveless relationship would be great. On the other, you’d have to box up seven years of accumulated crap and find a new house to put it in. Avoiding the faff wins out over the escaping the joyless misery every time.
You’d have to make new friends
By now you’ve been going out for so long you don’t have separate friends, just a bunch of other couples who do everything together. If you broke up with your partner, they’d get the sympathy and therefore the friends, and you’ve long since lost the knack of making new ones.
Trying to meet someone else would be a pain in the arse
You met your partner the old-fashioned way: getting shitfaced in a pub, awkwardly hooking up after a bit, and staying with them until they became an overfamiliar drain on your happiness. But you don’t fancy the terror of online dating, so you may as well stay with this person you hate forever.
You’d have to look after your appearance
You’ve been in your current relationship for so long that your standards have completely slipped and you don’t give a shit. You don’t need to attract anyone new so you wear a pair of stained trackie bottoms to Tesco and don’t give it a second thought. If you started seeing someone else you’d have to try quite hard to not look like a disgusting slob all the time.
They’d get the dog
Your partner technically owns the dog, in that they had it before you met and pay all the vet bills, but you love that animal with every fibre of your being. You might as well stay with your partner until it dies, even if that might be another 10 miserable years.
