Were there any drastic changes in the transition from being in a relationship to being a married couple?

Well, sometimes I think about it, and I wonder… how different do people’s relationship become after they’re married? I know everyone’s different, so let me hear your story.

How do you keep the spark there?

Just around valentine’s day, I was making small talk with another co-worker of mine. I asked her if her husband or her did anything special. I believe they’ve been married just shortly. Perhaps a year or two now as a married couple. And her reply was that she used to go out for valentine’s day, but now that they were married, they didn’t really do anything… She presented me with a metaphor about how once you hook the fish in with bait, and you catch them, you’re not that interested in that fish now that you have it, and you throw it back in.

Her story made me somewhat sad. I know that’s just her story..

So? Do you have any better ones? Or worse? How much has your relationship changed from the time that you were just being a couple to being a committed and married couple?