Romance and signs you’ve been together forever

Published on


Add Smile FM on Google

It’s the month of love and romance in the air. Flowers, chocolates, candlelit dinners – all things in a typical repertoire when you’re trying to impress your other half. But there are some traits in your partner that just kill any hope for a romantic connection.

Unromantic enough for a break-up

A survey found that particular trait gets so bad that it leads to a break-up for at least 20 percent of respondents:

We can all agree that we all don’t want a bad driver as a partner. Fortunately it’s something you can spot early in the relationship. But what about some of those things, romantic or not, that change as you grow older together.

Romance

How romance changes the longer you’re in a relationship

The Smile Breakfast team decided to unpack how things change as you grow older together. It’s not that things aren’t romantic anymore, it’s just that it takes a different form. We heard from our listeners who told us that romance in a long term relationship means different looking texts, a simple cup of coffee, and scheduling appointments for ‘quality time’:

Read more: Mosquitoes – your worst experiences

Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange
Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.

Latest articles

Doctors told her she would be in a wheelchair for life. Today she walked into studio

On the 15th of April this year Reach for A Dream introduced us to Leqisha and her mom Nicolene. Their family had been going...

Endurance runner celebrates the Celtic Harriers 120th birthday with a good cause

 This weekend, the city marks a remarkable milestone in Cape Town running history in a remarkable way. Denver van der Bergh will be taking...

Rick Treweek: From Kokstad to the Emmys

Rick Treweek's virtual universe, Uncanny Alley, began as a place for people to reconnect during the isolation of COVID-19 and has since evolved into...