Being "boring" with your other half is key to a long relationship, expert says

No need to feel guilty about another night watching telly!

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A relationship expert reckons the key to a long-lasting relationship is to be as "boring as possible".

Author of The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck, Mark Manson, told Business Insider back in 2017:

"If you think about it, a really happy 80-year-old couple that's been together for 60 years, the reason that they've been together for 60 years, it isn't because they took all these private jets and they had these crazy vacations and "Oh my God, look at their pictures." 

"It's because that they were able to be boring together."

"They are able to spend year after year, sitting around the house, talking about the same boring stuff, watching TV, watching movies, cooking dinner, and it went fine."

"There was nothing exciting, there's nothing blowing up, there's no huge drama, and dishes flying."

Very valid points.

He went on to say that in this day and age, people feel more pressure to share their exciting adventures with their other half on social media. He added that:

"We really want to be interesting people and have interesting lives but the problem is that, that conflicts with what makes a relationship good in a lot of cases.

"A lot of cases, what makes you an interesting and complex person, makes you a really horrible person to be with romantically.

"In a strange way, I feel like we need to cultivate more boredom in our lives, like boredom needs to be okay again."

Amen!