Wipe that silly plaid off your lips

Perhaps there's something to the idea that we all think of our relationships as too special, too independent of contemporary problem and strife.
Those common issues that "regular couples" face aren't applicable to us because we're just too incredibly unique to be bothered with the riddling doubts and confrontations of the everyday dyads.

Maybe the answer to all of the discomfort, the sour stomach, the unmet expectations is to behave with an assumption that in at least a general sense we're just like everyone else.

Blending with the crowd might actually prove to be an element of saving grace.
This whole idea stems from the notion that too much of the time individuals craft for themselves a sort of "personal fable"; some people believe themselves to be living a life completely outside of the norm and in accordance with that belief think of everyone around them as being able to see the blatant contrast between their puny, regular, vanilla lives and the bright, shiny, one-of-a-kind lives of those with this misconception.

Perhaps that last paragraph didn't make much sense.
Perhaps it's just because I'm so different than all of you.

Well now I'm just making an example using myself.

But this whole issue seems to be so obvious and yet so arcane.