As of today I live in Scotland, as of today I live in Edinburgh, as of today I live with Natasha. As a result, as of today, I am no longer in a long distance relationship, but rather I am in... a relationship.
For the next few weeks I will live in Natasha's flat with the girls. After that we will move into our own flat, for just the two of us.
It occurs to me, that this is only the second real change in my living arrangements. First I lived with my parents, then I lived at university, with other students, and now I live with my partner and, as of July the 24th, not with anyone else. For the first time in three years I have no base in Manchester (also as of today, as it happens). I have also, essentially moved out of Bradford. Arguably I had moved out of Bradford the summer I spent largely in Manchester, so I could see more of Natasha, or at the very latest the summer I spent in Edinburgh last year.
Obviously this is a very momentous step, second perhaps to my forthcoming nuptials, and yet in a sense evincing a more substantial change in lifestyle. On one level it doesn't feel very momentous, the significance has not sunk in. Probably because I have been visiting Edinburgh for so long, and so in a sense it already felt like I lived here, and conversely it now feels the same as a mere visit.
Living, permanently, together will force changes on our relationship, and I have no real idea what these changes will be. We will have to accommodate, and merge our ways of doing things, until we develop ways of doing things which are genuinely ours. Rather than the novelty of living together, or having our own house, perhaps it is the adventure of forming a family unit, with a distinctive family personality is the most exciting thing of all.
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