Disillusionment

disillusionment
n : freeing from false belief or illusions [syn: disenchantment, disillusion]

Sometimes we go through life thinking and feeling things are a certain way. Then suddenly, one day, *WHAM!* You get a wake-up call! It could be subtle or it could be dramatic. One way or another, that illusion being lived out is gone. When reality sets in, it can be quite painful. You think you know someone, or at least that you have the same mind-set as another but when reality bites, it becomes painfully obvious.

Even when relationships grow cold or stale, one wants things to be at least some semblance of what things were. In any committed relationship, there should be NO "status quo!" Some tend to lax into a false sense of complacency and not put forth enough effort to maintain said relationship. One partner is many times misperceived as longing for blissfulness and birds singing, swooning and fawning over each other when the other simply wants to be closer, more like a relationship than a business partnership. On the other hand, one partner wishes the other was more logical and predictable. No one expects bliss 100% of the time!

Where and when did we go wrong?

Growing Apart

As time passes, people grow closer together or drift apart. Sometimes, it takes a while to realize that. Priorities, goals, interests divert, one likes some things, another likes other things. But the fact is, either people grow closer or drift apart. It's a fact of life.

Shit happens.

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Change is sometimes for the better but mostly it is for the worse. Change can seemingly sneak up on you and suddenly you open your eyes to it even though it has happened long ago.

Live is full of changes.