"I don't expect a lot out of my boyfriend. He just needs to be there for me and treat me with respect. Some of you other girls hold their boyfriends up to too high of standards."
Damn right I hold my boyfriend up to high standards?! Why wouldn't I? Do I not deserve it?
When I think of my boyfriend, I'm proud of the man I have. Not because I don't expect much of him, but because I expect a lot and he lives up to it.
If I heard my boyfriend telling anyone that he didn't expect much from me, I would be genuinely upset. I want anyone I meet to expect a lot out of me, so when I prove them right for believing in me, they come back to me when they need a job done right and well, a second time.
The problem is, we give too many easy passes. We assume that love is sugar coating everything, and being delicate at all times. You didn't do something right and you want to be complimented on trying regardless of the outcome.
I'll save you time trying to figure this hard one out, but that's just not me.
I'm in the type of relationship where we strive to be the best kind of people we can be. Not only for each other, but for our families, our careers, our fur babies, and random people on the street. We want people to expect the very best from us because if they don't, what does that make us?
So yeah when people ask why do I expect so much out of my boyfriend, it's because from the day I met him he proved to me what all he was capable of.
As I did as well.
So if we're clearly off our game, we use one another as a stepping stool to bounce right back up to where we should be.
I know how to do a lot more since I've been with him. I've grown in ways I needed to, and I've realized what all I was capable of being-because of him. I never slipped into a worse version of myself because at all points he reminded me of the best form of me there was.
I'm blessed with a man who knows I expect a lot from him and in return he delivers more. It makes me confident that one day when I expect a..
husband
dad
provider
role model
grandpa..
He'll be the best form of him-if not more, than I would have ever expected.