Mikes mum the other day said, Lucy has changed, she has become a much softer person!!!!!!!!
Leaving that aside for now.
Do you think that the person you are with, can influence your personality?
If there are rough sides to your edges, can your partner smooth them down?
Do you feel that your partner influences your life so much that they can be either a negative or positive influence on your life??
I believe they can, I think it happenes naturally and not something we are aware of ourselves.
I'm not sure we change, but there is some influence there to smooth the edges, just as the company we keep can shape our behaviour too. Of course we also mellow with age and having children I think makes us behave differently, as we are careful how our behaviour influences them.
J and I have been together for 16+ years we have become more alike, not physically but mentally over that time. We are homogenising in our tastes
apparently the whole of our body is replaced cell by cell every 7 years. If thats so then why would we think that our personality wouldn't change? The externalities of a relaionship are bound to have a significant effect on us.
Well I'm not keen on encouraging folk to think they can change their partners or other loved ones cos I observe too much of that that isn't healthy.
However if I think of love as nurturing and nurturing as encouraging personal growth then of course it happens.
Perhaps the problems occur when the nurturer sets specific goals for the nurtured.
spot on sassy ,i agree that as we grow older we mature and usully become better and more sensible also that the right partner can smooth out the rough edges.
I hope we can change - or what's the point?
Yes totally agree. I used to be as soft as shite and I was walked over again, and again and again.
Also when you've had some REAL blows in life you tend to toughen up.
I've still a nice nature, with those who matter but these days I don't suffer fools gladly.