Slowing down a fast moving car

Relationships in alot of ways are like cars and their owners. Most of the time when an owner buys a car, they look to having that car for a long time. Some owners fall in love with their cars right away. Others have to work on falling in love with it. You have those that are always upgrading to the next new and shiny model, never really able to commit, and others that won't let go of the hooptie that got them through college for all of the memories they've had with it, although to keep it is costing them much more than it is worth. But all of them have one thing in common- plenty of work is involved in keeping a car running right and the same can be said for a relationship. Relationships, like cars, take alot of care and maintenance and if you aren't careful and pay attention to what is going on in the relationship, you can wear it out to the point where it is irrepairable. Just as much as you try to accelerate your car when it is unnecessary, if you go too fast in a relationship without knowing how to handle it, it is likely you will crash and hurt yourself and the passenger riding along with you. If you go too slow, then you run the risk of not being able to enjoy the drive. So somewhere there has to be a balance of sorts. But when all else fails and you feel like the car that's being driven or you're driving is moving too fast, you can put the brakes down or ask the driver to slow the hell up, that it isn't a race to couplehood. But you have to be ready for all of the responsibility that all of that entails or else it will be a car going nowhere.