Our Daily Lives by Kat Pham

Going Grocery Shopping Ever since I was little, I always believed that running errands like going grocery shopping or picking up medicine together is what “real adult couples” did since I watched my parents do it. Fast forward to the present, I now do these mundane errands with my boyfriend. At the end of every week, my boyfriend and I always go grocery shopping. It’s something that happens weekly, and yet I find myself constantly looking forward to it. When we go to the grocery store, it sometimes feels like I’m in an amusement park. We like to look at the new Asian snacks in the snack aisle and debate on whether or not we should buy ramen noodles again after saying we would try to eat healthier for the millionth time (we always buy them). It was these little trips to the market that would remind me of what I used to think “real couples” did as a child. And although we have passed the honeymoon phase and are in a more “settled” stage of our relationship doing these mundane errands, we find a lot of happiness in these small moments and it makes me wonder if the honeymoon stage ever really ends, or if this is only the natural progression of it.

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