>>8080843>I feel bored of them, and miss the excitement of datingso take her out on a date then, just because you're together doesn't mean you can't take her out on a date once in a while ffs
I mean you've made it to a year together, so you've both already passed the first big hurdle in any relationship, so how about you literally just make friday night 'date night' and take her out on a date somewhere, just like you presumably used to do before you both started living together and then fell into the rut of the monotonous daily routine of getting up-working-eating-barely talking-sleeping-repeat that's making you 'feel bored'
and just because you 'feel bored' don't then take 'date night' as an excuse to ditch her and try and hook up with someone new on the rebound either; sure you can chat with friends and new people you might meet while you're out together on a date, but meet and talk with them as a couple, after all 'date night' is supposed to be about the two of you doing something fun and different together outside of your regular daily routine
at the end of the day though in a relationship you BOTH have to make an effort to keep it fun and engaging and working, if you both just sit playing with your phones and not talking to each other in the evening after work each day then you're basically just roomates with benefits and the relationship WILL BE doomed - I'll even guess this is very likely a big part of why you've had this happen before, and it WILL happen to you again and again, every single time you meet someone new, if you don't make the effort to keep a relationship going
oh and take her to Oregon with you, treat it as a short (weekend/week-long) vacation together - something you can share together outside of your daily routine like an extended 'date night'; just make the fucking effort, otherwise you should probably stop wasting time stringing successive partners along because you can't be bothered to do a little work to keep any relationship going
