The comforts of a long term relationship

Hendrik and I have been together for six years and have been living together for two and a half. Needless to say we know each other very well. He knows everything about me and I know all about him. I know all his quirks and he knows mine. And I absolutely love it. Right now, it is almost four p.m. and I am wearing my pyjama pants and I mostly lounge in bed, because this is the place I like to study. Can you imagine how I look? Well, Hendrik still told me I was beautiful. This to me is the comfort of a long term relationship. He knows every little detail about me and some things are not perfect, but he still loves exactly this and I can laugh about his strange habits. I would not ever change this. It is so relaxing. At the beginning of our relationship I still stressed about so many things and tried to be perfect. There is no pretending now. I have absolutely no desire to go back to this awkward first stage. We laugh about things nobody else would ever laugh about and sometimes I catch myself explaining something we like to talk about to other people and they don't get it. But that's ok. It is probably the same way when I talk to my high school friends, but with Hendrik this is at much higher level.
I hope you get this right. I don't mean to brag and if you read my blog last year you know that we have definitely had our share of trouble. But I am very proud of the fact that we used this as a chance and worked very hard to get back into our old "groove".