Jumping in having only read the OP so far ...
I define commitment as any difficult to disentangle financial decision: sharing housing, loaning someone money, or making an expense you can only justify if things last. I would have to see a high degree of compatibility of present lifestyle, values and goals, and projected future lifestyle; and attraction and basic contentment with her.
Exclusive is neither here nor there for me, as I treat it as a given.
I have a hard time with the idea that “forever” is a decision made once: I prefer to think of it as a decision one must keep making.
- September 15th, 2009, 04:11 pm