While I was driving around on Saturday, I was thinking about whether or not people reach an event horizon of sorts in their romantic relationships. Once we cross a certain arbitrary threshold in our togetherness, does there come a time when we can no longer escape from the gravity created by our intimacy and we give in to its pull?

I am not referring to settling for someone. I think the settling process usually happens before a relationship ever progresses far enough to reach the event horizon. If you merely settle for your partner under the assertion that you probably won’t find anyone better, or that you don’t want to go through the difficulty of making yourself vulnerable to another human being, the intimacy in your relationship will never have gravity enough to really bring you to the point of no return.

I guess what I’m saying is that people get to a point in their relationships, and once this point is crossed, the way is shut behind them, and they are drawn by the gravitational pull of their accumulated intimacy toward whatever end.

I’m really tired. I wish this made more sense. Writing through this helped me clarify and understand my opinion. What does everyone else think?