"I've been a cow all my life, honey. Don't ask me to change now."
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cow, cows, horse, horses, cattle, farm, farms, farm animal, farm animals, change, changes, changing, relationship, relationships, relationship problem, relationship problems, partner, partners, difference, differences, unfair, unfairness, long term relationship, long term relationships, expectation, expectations, unrealistic, high expectations"Over the long haul, it's been a long haul."
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spouse, spouses, wife, wives, husband, husbands, partners, partner, significant other, significant others, couple, couples, relationship, relationships, boyfriend, boyfriends, girlfriends, long-term relationships, long term relationship, long term relationships, married life, marriage, marriages, domestic, domestic life, happy marriage, reflection, reflections, reminisce, reminiscing, anniversary, anniversaries, wedding anniversary, wedding anniversariesMan and a woman sit in a living room; a sign on the wall behind them reads "100% Recycled Conversation".
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relationship, relationships, relationship issues, relationship problems, marriage, marriages, married life, couple, couples, husband, husbands, wife, wives, spouse, spouses, conversation, conversation, boring, dull, unexciting, stale, stagnant, stable, stability, romance, unromantic, lack of romance, lacking romance, lack of excitement, middle age, middle-age, middle aged, middle-aged, aging, ageing, growing old, growing older, getting older, getting old, growing old, stages of a relationship, recycle, recycled, recycling, talk, talks, talking, ltr, ltrs, long term relationship, long term relationships, variety"He appears to have lost all of his resilience."
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resilient, resilience, subservient, subservience, husband, husbands, backbone, backbones, spine, spines, wife, wives, doctor, doctors, diagnosis, diagnoses, spineless, weak, weakness, will, willpower, marriage, marriages, married life, married lives, long term relationship, long term relationships, spouse, spouses, self-esteem, self-confidence, mental health, mental health problem, mental health problems"Let's update our will and go on vacation."
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vacation, vacations, holiday, holidays, travel, travels, traveling, last will and testament, vacation planning, risk, risks, risky, danger, dangerous, travel safety, boredom, bored, relationship rut, relationship ruts, marriage, married, married life, long term relationships, long term relationship, random thoughts, random conversations, discontent, discontented, murder, murdered, murdering, missing person, missing persons, disappear"Seeing it again, I was newly struck by whatever you thought about it."
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couple, couples, marriages, husband and wife, husbands and wives, bad relationship, bad relationships, concede, conceding, cinema, cinemas, movie, movies, film, movie theatre, movie theatres, movie theater, movie theaters, appease, appeasing, agree, agreeing, lie, lying, pretend, pretending, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, reconsider, reconsidered, reconsidering, keep the peace, keeping the peace"We don't have an attic, so you'll have to keep me in the living room."
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attic, attics, mad woman in the attic, jane eyre, bronte, charlotte bronte, marriage, marriages, married life, old married couple, mad woman, madwomen, mad woman, mad, dysfunctional relationship, dysfunctional relationships, keep, keeping, keeper, relationship, relationships, long term relationships, nineteenth-century novel, nineteenth-century novels, novel, novels, nineteenth-century, tropes, sexist tropes, sexist trope, gender stereotype"I can't help but think that things might have turned out differently if we had never met."
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marriage, relationships, reminisce, reminiscing, reflect, reflecting, regret, regretting, midlife crisis, mid-life crisis, discuss, discussion, projecting, projection, first meeting, long term relationship, longterm relationship, long term relationships, longterm relation ship, disappointed, disappointment, let down, marital disappointment, alternate reality, alternate life"It's supposed to be some kind of aphrodisiac, but it hasn't done jack for me."
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aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacs, drug, increasing libido, let down, let downs, let-down, let-downs, disappointment, disappointments, rhino, rhinos, rhinoceros, tiger, tigers, horn, horns, wild animal, wild animals, love drug, the love drug, ageing, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, pharmaceutical drug, pharmaceutical drugs"He's clinging to territory that's still under his control."
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living room, long term relationship, long term relationships, territory, husband, husbands, wife, wives, relationship, relationships, couple, couples, spouses, spouse, marriage, married, men, man, women, woman"How about a little music to push the plot along."
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soundtrack, soundtracks, plot, plots, spice up, spices up, spicing up, variety, introduce variety, marriage, married, married life, married lives, spouse, spouses, husband, husbands, wife, wives, middle age, middle aged, long term relationship, long term relationships, spice of life, stimulate, stimulates, stimulating, stimulation"I'll say this for Richard - he's anatomically correct."
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women talking about men, attractive, attractiveness, husband, husbands, husband and wife, husbands and wives, couple, couples, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, complement, complements, complementing, anatomically correct, unattractive, unattractiveness, unfit, unfitness, disappointment, disappointing, disappointments"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."
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eskimos, snow, word for snow, words for snow, myth, myths, boas, franz boas, split, splits, split apart, splits apart, splitting apart, growing distance, growing distances, date, dates, dating, long term relationship, long term relationships, communicate, communicates, communicating, communication breakdown, communication breakdowns, distance, distances, distant, marriage, marriages, unhappy marriage, unhappy marriages, difference, differences"In the next five years, global warming is going to make you ten times more irritating."
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global warming, climate change, greenhouse gases, green issues, irritating, irritated, irritation, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, couple, couples, bad relationship, bad relationships, sea levels, sea levels rising, fossil fuel, burning fossil fuel, fossil fuels, burning fossil fuels, forecast, forecast, prediction, predictions, argue, arguing, argument, arguments"Of course you don't look anything like your reflection in the mirror."
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reflection, reflections, mirror, mirrors, looking in the mirror, self conscious, self-consciousness, self-conscious, self consciousness, in denial, comfort, comforting, support, supporting, supportive, husband and wife, husbands and wives, white lie, white lies, sarcasm, sarcastic, couple, couples, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, ageing, getting old"If I ever say anything I haven't said already, let me know."
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relationship, relationships, marriage, married couple, old married couple, old married couples, unhappy marriage, unhappy relationship, bicker, bickering, bore, boorish, boring, boring old man, boring old woman, monotonous, monotony, tedious conversation, boring conversation, repetitive, repetitive conversation, long term relationship, long term relationships, conversation, conversations, recycle, recycles, recycling, bore, bores, boring, couples therapy, therapy, therapist, therapists, original thought, stuck in a rut, rut, ruts"God, you know what? You're sweet, but I just got out of a long thing."
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relationship, relationships, couple, couples, men, man, woman, women, dating, date, dates, crush, breakup, breakups, broken up, dump, dumped, split up, rejection, rejected, boyfriend, boyfriends, girlfriends, excuse, excuses, long term relationship, long term relationships, baggage, rebound, rebounds"Mr. Goodrich, it's time we called each other by our first names."
"You used to start off each day with a song."
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bird, birds, songbird, songbirds, pet, pets, pet bird, pet birds, caged bird, caged birds, depression, depressed, depressive, depressives, mental health, mental health issue, mental health issues, mental health problems, mental health problem, mental health disorder, mental health disorders, couple, couples, sing, singing, singer, singers, morning, morning person, morning people, marriages, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, hopeless, hopelessness, crushed hopes, broken dreams, captives, captive, captivity"I always know what Harry's going to say, and he always knows what I'm going to say, so, by and large, we just don't bother."
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couple, couples, old couple, old couples, marriages, husband and wife, husbands and wives, long term relationship, long term relationships, long-term relationships, longterm relationship, longterm relationships, conversation, conversation, boring conversation, boring conversations, small talk, smalltalk, bored, boredom, broing, predictable, predictability, elderly couples, elderly couple, elderly people, old people, retired, retirement, lack of communication, uncommunicative, no communication, porch, porches, front porch, front porches"It was her dying wish."
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ball and chain, marriages, tied down, husband and wife, husbands and wives, widower, widowers, prisoner, prisoners, gender issues, couple, couples, bad relationship, bad relationships, long term relationship, long term relationships, dying wish, dying wishes, last words, dying, end of life, punish, punishing, punishments, revenge, getting revenge"We've been together so long we can finish each other's divorce threats."
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marriages, couple, couples, bad marriage, bad marriages, unhappy marriage, unhappy marriage, long marriage, long marriages, long-term relationships, long term relationship, long term relationships, divorce, divorces, break-up, breaking-up, break up, breaking up, split up, splitting up, split-up, splitting-up, argue, arguing, argument, arguments, fight, fights, fighting, domestic, domestic, domestic argument, domestic arguments, finish each other's sentences, finish each others sentences