The Relationship Bubble

Ok, now I'm having fun with my weird relationship metaphor:
It’s like…a balloon or a bubble, but a living one—it expands as it fills with experience. A weak relationship will burst and fall apart with enough experience, but a good healthy one stretches, and thickens and grows. I think a good relationship feels like a tight pouch, like a pregnant belly. Maybe you can feel that parts of it are very well developed and solid, but other areas are balloon-thin, ready to lose it all. It would be hard to grow it evenly, for sure. It would start out thin, but very elastic in its newness… thinness is only fragility if there’s too much experience swelling it up too fast, or a long time for brittleness to set in. I guess I don’t know what makes the thickness—what the thickness consists of, whether it’s agreement or compromise. Maybe most of the elasticity is rooted in communication....    Maybe I can flesh this idea out later.